Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about 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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Lynn Hall

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

Bible

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

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

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

10.

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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

14.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

18.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ruskin, John

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

32.

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

Paul, Jean

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

34.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Watts, Alan W.

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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

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

Felltham, Owen

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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