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

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Butterworth, Eric

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bennett, Arnold

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I Ching

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mcgovern, William

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Andy Warhol

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Dewar, Jeff

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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