Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Davis, William B.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Bryant, William C.

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

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

Susan Rice

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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Eliot, George

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Will

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Constant change is here to stay.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Depree, Max

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Burke, Edmund

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Carol Burnett

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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

Christina Baldwin

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Heraclitus

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Udall, Mo