Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kearney

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Klee, Paul

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Bryant, William C.

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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Lynn Hall

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Heraclitus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.