Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Felltham, Owen

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Andy Warhol

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

11.

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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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

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

15.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Tilden, Bill

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

27.

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

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Virgil

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

32.

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

Depree, Max

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

Harrison Ford

35.

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

Petworth, John

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

41.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

42.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

45.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

47.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David