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

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Hooker, Richard

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

11.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

12.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

17.

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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

19.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Heraclitus

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

Carol Burnett

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

Felltham, Owen

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

28.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

29.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Mohammed

34.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Sinetar, Marsha

37.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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, 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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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

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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