Motivational Quotes

Change

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Draper, John W.

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

Bryant, William C.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Nelson Mandela

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

11.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

12.

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

Heraclitus

13.

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

Tilden, Bill

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

15.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

16.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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.

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

20.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

21.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

Brown, Les

23.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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.

25.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

28.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

29.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

31.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

49.

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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.