Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

- I Ching

Best Quotes about 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.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

10.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Herford, Oliver

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Paul, Jean

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Spander, Art

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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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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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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma