Motivational Quotes

Change

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Lee, Bruce

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Paul, Jean

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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?

13.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Porter, Irene

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

Kearney

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shaw, P.K.

24.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

31.

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

Lynn Hall

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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

33.

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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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