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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

Jackson, Nelson

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Gerhart, Susan

The only people who like change are wet babies.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

10.

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

Virgil

12.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Bryant, William C.

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

15.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

16.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Walesa, Lech

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

28.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

29.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

30.

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

Udall, Mo

31.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Sontag, Susan

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony