Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Andy Warhol

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

10.

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

11.

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

Riley, Pat

12.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

13.

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

A Course In Miracles

14.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

15.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

16.

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

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

18.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

19.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

20.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

21.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

22.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

23.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

24.

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

Proust, Marcel

25.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

26.

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

Felltham, Owen

27.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

28.

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

29.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

34.

Constant change is here to stay.

35.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

36.

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

Ramsay Clark

37.

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

Bennett, Arnold

38.

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

Kearney

39.

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

40.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

41.

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

Watts, Alan W.

42.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

43.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Confucius

45.

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

46.

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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

48.

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.

49.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

50.

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