Motivational Quotes

Change

Constant change is here to stay.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Socrates

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

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Heraclitus

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Christina Baldwin

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Real Live Preacher

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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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Constant change is here to stay.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

31.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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 word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Ramsay Clark

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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.

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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita