Motivational Quotes

Change

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Kearney

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

Paul, Jean

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

A Course In Miracles

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Depree, Max

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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Spander, Art

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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