Motivational Quotes

Change

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Riley, Pat

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo