Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Constant change is here to stay.

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Heraclitus

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

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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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

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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 exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Burke, Edmund

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Spander, Art

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Bible

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens