Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ramsay Clark

Best Quotes about Change

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

Christina Baldwin

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Gilcrest, Peter

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Heraclitus

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Bible

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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