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

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Bacon, Francis

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Dean, Jimmy

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Paul, Jean

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Tilden, Bill

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Angelou, Maya

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Hooker, Richard

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Susan Rice

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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