Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Butterworth, Eric

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Kearney

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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