Motivational Quotes

Change

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

- Ramsay Clark

Best Quotes about Change

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust