Motivational Quotes

Change

In pain is a new time born.

- Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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.

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

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Murdock, Mike

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Watts, Alan W.

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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

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

Bellin, Gita

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Heraclitus

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Petworth, John

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Walesa, Lech

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Virgil

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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

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Carol Burnett