Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Christina Baldwin

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Bible

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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

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Rogers, Will

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

Confucius

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Pope, Alexander

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Carol Burnett

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

Ramsay Clark

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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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.