Motivational Quotes

Change

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Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Mohammed

2.

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

Spander, Art

3.

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

4.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

5.

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

Ward, William A.

6.

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

7.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

8.

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

9.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

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.

12.

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

Udall, Mo

13.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

16.

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

17.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

19.

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

Socrates

20.

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

Bellin, Gita

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

24.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

25.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

26.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

27.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

28.

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

29.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

30.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

31.

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

Jackson, Jesse

32.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

33.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

34.

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

35.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

36.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

38.

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

39.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

44.

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

Dean, Jimmy

45.

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

46.

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

Davis, William B.

47.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

48.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

50.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis