Motivational Quotes

Change

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

- Lynn Hall

Best Quotes about Change

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

Franklin, Benjamin

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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

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

Ramsay Clark

10.

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

11.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

12.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Bellin, Gita

14.

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

15.

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

George, David Lloyd

16.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

18.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

19.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

20.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

23.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

24.

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

Udall, Mo

25.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

26.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

27.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

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

Bryant, William C.

29.

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

30.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

31.

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

32.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

34.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

35.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

36.

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

Bacon, Francis

37.

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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Hooker, Richard

40.

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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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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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

43.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

44.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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

46.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

47.

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

Jackson, Jesse

48.

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

Waitley, Denis

49.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius