Motivational Quotes

Change

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

- Gurdjieff, George

Best Quotes about Change

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

Klee, Paul

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

Proust, Marcel

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

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

Mcgovern, William

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

12.

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

Lee, Bruce

13.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

14.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

15.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

19.

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.

20.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

21.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

22.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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

25.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

26.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

28.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

29.

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

Butterworth, Eric

30.

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

Nelson Mandela

31.

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

32.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

33.

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

34.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

35.

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

36.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

37.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

38.

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

39.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

40.

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

Christina Baldwin

41.

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

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

43.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

44.

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

45.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

46.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

47.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

48.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

49.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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