Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gilcrest, Peter

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Andy Warhol

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

13.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

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

Bellin, Gita

15.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

16.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Mohammed

20.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

21.

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

Menander of Athens

23.

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

Mcgovern, William

24.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

25.

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

Waitley, Denis

26.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

27.

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

28.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

29.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

30.

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

Bailey, Pearl

31.

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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

33.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

34.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

35.

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

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

Burke, Edmund

40.

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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Heraclitus

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

49.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles