Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

11.

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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

13.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

15.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

A Course In Miracles

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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

19.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

20.

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

Robbins, Anthony

21.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Davis, William B.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

26.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

27.

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

28.

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Felltham, Owen

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Shaw, P.K.

34.

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

Petworth, John

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

39.

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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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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

44.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

Bryant, William C.

46.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

48.

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

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund