Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Davis, William B.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Constant change is here to stay.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

George, David Lloyd

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Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Bible

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Lynn Hall

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Nelson Mandela

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Carol Burnett

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan