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

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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 word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Christina Baldwin

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Felltham, Owen

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Heraclitus

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Angelou, Maya

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.