Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes but change.

- Zangwill, Israel

Best Quotes about Change

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

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Heraclitus

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Rogers, Will

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

Watts, Alan W.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Harrison Ford

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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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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.