Motivational Quotes

Change

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Change

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

Menander of Athens

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

Waitley, Denis

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Lee, Bruce

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

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

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

10.

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

Jackson, Nelson

11.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

12.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

13.

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

Spencer, Herbert

14.

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

15.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

16.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Ruskin, John

18.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

19.

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

20.

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

Tilden, Bill

21.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

22.

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

Heraclitus

23.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

24.

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

Gerhart, Susan

25.

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

26.

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

Confucius

27.

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

Proust, Marcel

28.

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

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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

30.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

31.

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

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

35.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

36.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Shaw, P.K.

38.

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.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

40.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.