Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Udall, Mo

Best Quotes about Change

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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?

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

Davis, William B.

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

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

14.

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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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

16.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

18.

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 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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

21.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

24.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

32.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Brown, Les

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Buffett, Warren

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund