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

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Petworth, John

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Virgil

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

14.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Davis, William B.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Pope, Alexander

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Heraclitus

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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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

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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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

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

48.

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus