Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Heraclitus

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

Eliot, George

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

10.

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

11.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

13.

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

14.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

15.

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

Menander of Athens

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

18.

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

Butterworth, Eric

19.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

20.

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

Heraclitus

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

24.

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

25.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

27.

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

Christina Baldwin

28.

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

29.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Robbins, Anthony

31.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Tracy, Brian

34.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

41.

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

Carol Burnett

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Depree, Max

45.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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.