Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

A Course In Miracles

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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

Pope, Alexander

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

10.

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

Gerhart, Susan

11.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

12.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

13.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

15.

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

Dante Alighieri

16.

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

Lee, Bruce

17.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

18.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

19.

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

20.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

21.

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

Watts, Alan W.

22.

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

24.

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

Angelou, Maya

25.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

26.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

32.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Felltham, Owen

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

40.

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

Ramsay Clark

41.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Depree, Max

43.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

49.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus