Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Bryant, William C.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

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

Kearney

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Confucius

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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.

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Susan Rice

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.