Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Watts, Alan W.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Pope, Alexander

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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 changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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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

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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 willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Menander of Athens

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel