Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Bible

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Porter, Irene

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Proust, Marcel

10.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

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

12.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

13.

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

Davis, William B.

14.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

15.

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

A Course In Miracles

16.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

21.

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

Lynn Hall

22.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

23.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

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

Kempis, Thomas

26.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

27.

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

Spencer, Herbert

28.

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

Mcgovern, William

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

32.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

33.

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.

34.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

37.

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

Dewar, Jeff

38.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.