Motivational Quotes

Change

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Change

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

Porter, Irene

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.

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Jackson, Jesse

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

10.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

11.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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

16.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

17.

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 belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

26.

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

Kearney

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Constant change is here to stay.

30.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Tilden, Bill

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

38.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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.