Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

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

Kearney

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

Udall, Mo

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Shaw, P.K.

10.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

15.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

16.

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

Dewar, Jeff

17.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

18.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

23.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

24.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

25.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

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

Davis, William B.

29.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

30.

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

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

33.

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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Waitley, Denis

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Spander, Art

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Gilcrest, Peter