Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

16.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Andy Warhol

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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