Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Change

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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.

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

Bible

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Shelton, Richard

10.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

11.

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

Klee, Paul

12.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

17.

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

18.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

19.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

20.

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

21.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

23.

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

24.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

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

26.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

27.

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

28.

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

29.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

30.

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

Shaw, P.K.

31.

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.

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

34.

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

Rohn, Jim

35.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

36.

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

37.

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

Brown, Les

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

39.

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.

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

42.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

43.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

44.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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

46.

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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

49.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha