Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Almanac, Mary S.

Best Quotes about Change

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Klee, Paul

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

10.

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

11.

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

Ward, William A.

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

15.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

16.

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

Heraclitus

17.

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

18.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

19.

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

20.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

21.

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.

22.

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

25.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

29.

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

30.

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

Draper, John W.

31.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

32.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

33.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

34.

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

Depree, Max

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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

36.

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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

38.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

39.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

40.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

43.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

44.

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

A Course In Miracles

45.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

46.

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

Davis, William B.

47.

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?

48.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

49.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De