Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Felltham, Owen

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.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Constant change is here to stay.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

A Course In Miracles

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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

Andy Warhol

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Buffett, Warren

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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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

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Churchill, Winston

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

40.

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

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Murdock, Mike

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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.