Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Paul, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Bible

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Andy Warhol

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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

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

Paz, Octavio

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Riley, Pat

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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