Motivational Quotes

Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Draper, John W.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

10.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

18.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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

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

Ramsay Clark

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Davis, William B.

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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.

30.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Bailey, Pearl

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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

Udall, Mo

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Porter, Irene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Mohammed