Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

10.

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?

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Depree, Max

18.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

24.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

25.

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

Mohammed

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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

Lynn Hall

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Murdock, Mike

40.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

41.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Angelou, Maya

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