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 universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Susan Rice

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

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

Mcgovern, William

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

11.

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

Paz, Octavio

12.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

13.

Constant change is here to stay.

14.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

15.

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

Lee, Bruce

16.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

17.

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

18.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

19.

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

Butterworth, Eric

20.

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

Nelson Mandela

21.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

22.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

23.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

24.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

25.

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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

28.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

29.

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

30.

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

Ramsay Clark

31.

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

Herford, Oliver

32.

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

Felltham, Owen

33.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

34.

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

Riley, Pat

35.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

36.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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

39.

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

40.

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

Andy Warhol

41.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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

43.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

44.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

45.

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

Menander of Athens

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

49.

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

Confucius

50.

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.