Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Change

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Naisbitt, John

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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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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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Paul, Jean

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

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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 wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Heraclitus

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

43.

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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius