Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ward, William A.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Proust, Marcel

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.

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

Nelson Mandela

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

A Course In Miracles

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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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Brown, Les

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Davis, William B.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis