Motivational Quotes

Change

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Burke, Edmund

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Kempis, Thomas

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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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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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

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Murdock, Mike

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, William B.

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Carol Burnett

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Andy Warhol

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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.

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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

Harrison Ford

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Confucius

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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.