Motivational Quotes

Change

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Depree, Max

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

Kearney

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

10.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

Confucius

12.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Mcgovern, William

14.

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.

15.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

16.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

17.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

18.

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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

20.

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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

22.

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

Christina Baldwin

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

24.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

25.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

29.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

30.

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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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

32.

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

Mohammed

34.

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

Heraclitus

35.

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

Shelton, Richard

36.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

37.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

40.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

41.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

44.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

45.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.