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 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

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

Socrates

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

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

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

12.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

13.

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

14.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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.

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

17.

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

18.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

19.

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

20.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

22.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

23.

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

Waitley, Denis

24.

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

25.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

26.

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

Lynn Hall

27.

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

Shaw, P.K.

28.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

29.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

30.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

31.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

34.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

36.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

37.

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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

40.

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

Tracy, Brian

41.

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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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

43.

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

44.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

45.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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.

47.

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

Harrison Ford

48.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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