Motivational Quotes

Change

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

- Rowan, Carl

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lynn Hall

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

10.

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

11.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

12.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

14.

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

Buffett, Warren

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Brown, Les

18.

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

19.

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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard 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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

27.

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

28.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

29.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

36.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

37.

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

38.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Sontag, Susan

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

47.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

48.

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Udall, Mo