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

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.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Spander, Art

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Andy Warhol

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

Depree, Max

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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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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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Lee, Bruce

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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

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Shelton, Richard

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Tilden, Bill

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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