Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Garfield, Charles A.

10.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

11.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

15.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

17.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

18.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

22.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Gilcrest, Peter

28.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Depree, Max

30.

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

Proust, Marcel

31.

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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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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.

36.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

37.

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

Kearney

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

41.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

42.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

43.

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

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

Heraclitus

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General