Motivational Quotes

Change

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dewar, Jeff

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Bible

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

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Petworth, John

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

Porter, Irene

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Udall, Mo

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Andy Warhol

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

Dante Alighieri

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Heraclitus

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell