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

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Glasgow, Ellen

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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.

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spander, Art

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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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 may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Tilden, Bill

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

35.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William