Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Felltham, Owen

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Rohn, Jim

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Eliot, George

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

Porter, Irene

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Paul, Jean