Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Socrates

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

10.

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

Spander, Art

11.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

12.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Klee, Paul

14.

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.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

17.

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

Andy Warhol

18.

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

Susan Rice

19.

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

20.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Almanac, Mary S.

24.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

25.

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

Murdock, Mike

26.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

27.

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

28.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

29.

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

Davis, William B.

30.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

31.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

32.

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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

Harrison Ford

36.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

37.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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

Bennett, Arnold

43.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody