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

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Susan Rice

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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

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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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

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

Kearney

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Murdock, Mike

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mohammed

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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