Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Lee, Bruce

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

Ramsay Clark

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

14.

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

15.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

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

Shaw, P.K.

20.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

21.

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.

22.

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

Porter, Irene

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

24.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

27.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

28.

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

Depree, Max

30.

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

Murdock, Mike

31.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Menander of Athens

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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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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

35.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

36.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

37.

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

Proust, Marcel

38.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

39.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

40.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Waitley, Denis

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

Virgil

45.

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.

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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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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

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

Confucius

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.