Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Confucius

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Petworth, John

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

25.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Constant change is here to stay.

27.

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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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 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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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.