Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Bacon, Francis

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

A Course In Miracles

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Ruskin, John

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

10.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

11.

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

12.

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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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

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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

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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.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Lee, Bruce

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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.

21.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

23.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

30.

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

Harrison Ford

31.

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

Heraclitus

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Waitley, Denis

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Udall, Mo

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

42.

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.

43.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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