Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Pope, Alexander

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

10.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

13.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

19.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

23.

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

24.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

25.

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

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Paz, Octavio

29.

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

30.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

32.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

33.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

34.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

37.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

38.

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

Dante Alighieri

39.

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

Rogers, Will

40.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

41.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

42.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

43.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

44.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

45.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

46.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

47.

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

Naisbitt, John

48.

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

George, David Lloyd

49.

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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone