Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Proust, Marcel

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

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

Harrison Ford

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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 industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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 is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Spander, Art

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Andy Warhol

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Constant change is here to stay.

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