Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kearney

Best Quotes about Change

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Lynn Hall

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

Bryant, William C.

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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

10.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

Murdock, Mike

12.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Buffett, Warren

16.

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

Dante Alighieri

17.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

20.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

21.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

22.

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

23.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

24.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

35.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Heraclitus

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

48.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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