Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Change

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Angelou, Maya

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

27.

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

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Porter, Irene

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Harrison Ford

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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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.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Butterworth, Eric