Motivational Quotes

Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lee, Bruce

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Gerhart, Susan

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

10.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

11.

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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Butterworth, Eric

16.

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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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

18.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

19.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

23.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

26.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

27.

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

28.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

29.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

30.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

33.

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

34.

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

Bailey, Pearl

35.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

38.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

39.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Jackson, Nelson

43.

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

Petworth, John

45.

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

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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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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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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Eliot, George