Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Branden, Nathaniel

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Kearney

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.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Rogers, Will

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

Susan Rice

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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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 inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Andy Warhol

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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 will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Dante Alighieri

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Depree, Max

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.