Motivational Quotes

Change

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

- Bryson, Lyman L.

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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

10.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

11.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

12.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

14.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

15.

Constant change is here to stay.

16.

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

Davis, William B.

17.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

18.

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.

19.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

20.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

21.

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

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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

23.

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

Rohn, Jim

24.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

25.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

26.

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

Spencer, Herbert

28.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Heraclitus

30.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

31.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

35.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

36.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

37.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Hooker, Richard

40.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

42.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

43.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

44.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

48.

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

Walesa, Lech

49.

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

Dean, Jimmy