Motivational Quotes

Change

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

- Huxley, Elspeth

Best Quotes about Change

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kearney

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Davis, William B.

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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 way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Felltham, Owen

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

29.

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

Susan Rice

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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.

36.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Paul, Jean

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha