Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Lynn Hall

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Porter, Irene

10.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

11.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

12.

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

13.

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

A Course In Miracles

14.

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

15.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

16.

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

Felltham, Owen

17.

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

Carol Burnett

18.

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

19.

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

20.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

23.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

24.

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.

25.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

28.

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

29.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

30.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

31.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

32.

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

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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.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

35.

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

Kempis, Thomas

36.

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

Tilden, Bill

37.

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

38.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

43.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

44.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Heraclitus

46.

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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

48.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

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

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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