Motivational Quotes

Change

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Change

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.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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

Heraclitus

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hooker, Richard

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Petworth, John

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Heraclitus

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

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Ruskin, John

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.