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

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

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

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Petworth, John

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

24.

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

25.

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

Mohammed

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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

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

Susan Rice

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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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.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

36.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Draper, John W.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.