Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bastos, Augusto Roa

Best Quotes about Change

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

Waitley, Denis

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Carol Burnett

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

Virgil

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

10.

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

Shaw, P.K.

11.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

12.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

13.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

14.

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

15.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

18.

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

Paz, Octavio

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

22.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

23.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

24.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

25.

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

Buffett, Warren

27.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

28.

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

Tilden, Bill

29.

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

Jackson, Jesse

30.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

31.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

32.

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

34.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

37.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

38.

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

Harrison Ford

39.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

40.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

41.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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

43.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

44.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.