Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Depree, Max

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

Christina Baldwin

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lynn Hall

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Tilden, Bill

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Ruskin, John

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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.

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

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter