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

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Gerhart, Susan

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

10.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Hooker, Richard

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Spander, Art

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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 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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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Tilden, Bill

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bryant, William C.

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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