Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Nelson Mandela

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Bryant, William C.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Ward, William A.

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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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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.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Christina Baldwin

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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

Confucius

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Heraclitus

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

Udall, Mo

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Ruskin, John

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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Things do not change, we do.