Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about 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

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

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Churchill, Winston

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

10.

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

Naisbitt, John

11.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

12.

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

Petworth, John

13.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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.

18.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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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.

24.

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

Bellin, Gita

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Murdock, Mike

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Carol Burnett

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

39.

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

Depree, Max

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kearney

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von