Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Bacon, Francis

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

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

10.

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

George, David Lloyd

11.

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

Udall, Mo

12.

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.

13.

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

A Course In Miracles

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

15.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

16.

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

17.

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

Paz, Octavio

18.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

19.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

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.

21.

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

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

25.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

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

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

31.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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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

33.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

34.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

35.

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

Eliot, George

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

Virgil

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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

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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.

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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

45.

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

46.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

48.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

49.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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