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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Branden, Nathaniel

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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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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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

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Ramsay Clark

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Paul, Jean

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Bacon, Francis