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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Christina Baldwin

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Dewar, Jeff

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

10.

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

11.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

12.

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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

14.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

15.

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

16.

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

Naisbitt, John

17.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

18.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

19.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

20.

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

Waitley, Denis

21.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

22.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Sontag, Susan

24.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

25.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

26.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

27.

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

28.

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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

30.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

31.

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

Lee, Bruce

32.

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

Harrison Ford

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

35.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Churchill, Winston

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Sinetar, Marsha

43.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

44.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

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?

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

48.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah