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

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

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

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Bellin, Gita

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Spander, Art

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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

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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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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

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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