Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

1.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

2.

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

Udall, Mo

3.

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

4.

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

Heraclitus

5.

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

Dean, Jimmy

6.

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.

7.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

8.

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

Bailey, Pearl

9.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

10.

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

11.

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

Jackson, Jesse

12.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

13.

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

Harrison Ford

14.

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

Confucius

15.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

16.

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

Waitley, Denis

17.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

19.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

20.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

21.

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

22.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

23.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

24.

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

Bennett, Arnold

25.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

26.

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

Paul, Jean

27.

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

28.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

29.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

30.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

35.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

36.

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

37.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

38.

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

Susan Rice

39.

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

40.

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

Paz, Octavio

41.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

42.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

43.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

44.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

45.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

47.

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

48.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

50.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge