Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Change

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

Almanac, Mary S.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

10.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Bryant, William C.

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Depree, Max

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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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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

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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 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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Harrison Ford

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Kearney

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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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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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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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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Proust, Marcel

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lynn Hall