Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ramsay Clark

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Udall, Mo

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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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.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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 fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Eliot, George

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

George, David Lloyd