Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

11.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

12.

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

Heraclitus

13.

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.

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

Paul, Jean

15.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Eliot, George

17.

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.

18.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

19.

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

Susan Rice

20.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

21.

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

Bible

22.

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.

23.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

26.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

27.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

28.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Ruskin, John

30.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

40.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

44.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

45.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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