Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Change

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

Riley, Pat

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Shaw, P.K.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

10.

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

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

13.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

16.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Shelton, Richard

18.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

Spander, Art

20.

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

Ruskin, John

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

25.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Klee, Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

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

32.

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

33.

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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

41.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

46.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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

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

Davis, William B.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin