Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Change

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Menander of Athens

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Confucius

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Tilden, Bill

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Waitley, Denis

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius