Motivational Quotes

Change

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Change

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Rogers, Will

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

A Course In Miracles

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

10.

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.

11.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Sontag, Susan

18.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Murdock, Mike

23.

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

Harrison Ford

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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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

28.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

31.

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.

32.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

33.

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

Real Live Preacher

34.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

35.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

40.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

41.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Mohammed

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

Carol Burnett

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