Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ramsay Clark

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Butterworth, Eric

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Nelson Mandela

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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Socrates

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Heraclitus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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Douglas, William O.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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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 is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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.