Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

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.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Petworth, John

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

10.

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

11.

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

Lee, Bruce

12.

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

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

14.

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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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

16.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Bryant, William C.

18.

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

Heraclitus

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

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

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

23.

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

24.

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

Butterworth, Eric

25.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

26.

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

Harrison Ford

27.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

28.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

29.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

30.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

31.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

32.

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

Sontag, Susan

33.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

34.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

35.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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 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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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.

39.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

42.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

46.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Spander, Art

48.

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.

49.

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

Pickens, T. Boone