Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bryant, William C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Spencer, Herbert

10.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

12.

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

Butterworth, Eric

13.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

14.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

15.

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?

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

Mohammed

18.

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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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.

20.

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

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Churchill, Winston

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

29.

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

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

35.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.