Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Lee, Bruce

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

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Glasgow, Ellen

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Bacon, Francis

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Shelton, Richard

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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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