Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Dewar, Jeff

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

10.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

11.

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

Depree, Max

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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

Waitley, Denis

14.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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

Ruskin, John

17.

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

Tilden, Bill

18.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

19.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

20.

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

Burke, Edmund

21.

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

22.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

23.

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

24.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

25.

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

26.

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

A Course In Miracles

27.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

28.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

30.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

31.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

32.

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

33.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

34.

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

Angelou, Maya

35.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

36.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

39.

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

Udall, Mo

40.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

42.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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

Kearney

46.

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

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

48.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Spander, Art

50.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis