Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carol Burnett

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

12.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

13.

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

14.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

15.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Jackson, Nelson

19.

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

Kearney

20.

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

Proust, Marcel

21.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

22.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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

25.

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

A Course In Miracles

26.

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

27.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

28.

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

Menander of Athens

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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.

32.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

33.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

35.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

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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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

38.

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.

39.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

40.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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.

42.

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

43.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

44.

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

45.

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

Lynn Hall

46.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

47.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

48.

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