Motivational Quotes

Change

Constant change is here to stay.

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Best Quotes about Change

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Harrison Ford

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bailey, Pearl

10.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

11.

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

12.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

19.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

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

Riley, Pat

31.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

32.

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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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 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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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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