Motivational Quotes

Change

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Kearney

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

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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.

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Glasgow, Ellen

10.

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

11.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

12.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

13.

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

Herford, Oliver

14.

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

15.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

16.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

17.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

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

19.

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

Murdock, Mike

20.

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

Tilden, Bill

21.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

22.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Heraclitus

26.

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

27.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

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

Bible

30.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

31.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

32.

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

Shaw, P.K.

33.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

34.

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

Buffett, Warren

35.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

36.

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

Brown, Les

37.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

40.

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

Bennett, Arnold

41.

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

Waitley, Denis

42.

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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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

44.

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

Dante Alighieri

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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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Things do not change, we do.