Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Depree, Max

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

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

11.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

12.

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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

14.

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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Adalphos, General

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Watts, Alan W.

20.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

21.

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

22.

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

Buffett, Warren

23.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

24.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

25.

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

26.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

27.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

28.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

29.

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

30.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

31.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

32.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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.

34.

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

Naisbitt, John

35.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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.

38.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

39.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

41.

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

Brown, Les

42.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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.

45.

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

46.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

48.

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

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas