Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

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?

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hooker, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

13.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

15.

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

Petworth, John

16.

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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

18.

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

19.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

20.

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

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

23.

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

Waitley, Denis

24.

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

Bailey, Pearl

25.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

27.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

33.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

34.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

35.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

36.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

37.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

39.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

40.

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

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

48.

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von