Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spander, Art

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

10.

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

11.

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

Ramsay Clark

12.

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

Christina Baldwin

13.

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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

15.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

16.

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

17.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

18.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

21.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

22.

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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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.

28.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

30.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

31.

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

Spencer, Herbert

32.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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

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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

35.

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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

38.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

45.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

46.

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

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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

48.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

50.

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

George, David Lloyd