Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gilcrest, Peter

Best Quotes about Change

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Paz, Octavio

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tracy, Brian

10.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

11.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

12.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

13.

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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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.

15.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Udall, Mo

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

Hooker, Richard

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

25.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

26.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

27.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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

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

Ramsay Clark

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

31.

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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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

33.

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

Mcgovern, William

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

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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.

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

Paul, Jean

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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 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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

43.

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

Davis, William B.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

49.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.