Motivational Quotes

Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Udall, Mo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lynn Hall

13.

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

14.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

15.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

16.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

17.

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

Waitley, Denis

18.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

19.

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

Lee, Bruce

20.

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

Murdock, Mike

21.

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

Menander of Athens

22.

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

Bennett, Arnold

23.

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

Klee, Paul

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Rogers, Will

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

29.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

31.

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

32.

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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

34.

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

Burke, Edmund

35.

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

Kearney

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Butterworth, Eric

39.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

40.

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?

41.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

42.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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

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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

45.

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

Spander, Art

46.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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.

48.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

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