Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change; we change.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ramsay Clark

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Davis, William B.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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.

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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

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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

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Udall, Mo

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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