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

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

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

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

Ward, William A.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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.

11.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

12.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

13.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

14.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

15.

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

16.

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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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

18.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

22.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

23.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Brown, Les

29.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

30.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

31.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

32.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

33.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

39.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Constant change is here to stay.

49.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David