Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bryson, Lyman L.

Best Quotes about Change

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

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

Bryant, William C.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

10.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

11.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

12.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

13.

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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

16.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

17.

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

Petworth, John

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

20.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

Christina Baldwin

22.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

23.

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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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

25.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

26.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

27.

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

George, David Lloyd

28.

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.

Huxley, Elspeth

29.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

31.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

32.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

33.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Felltham, Owen

36.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

37.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

38.

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

39.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

40.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

43.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

44.

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

Ruskin, John

46.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Waitley, Denis