Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Socrates

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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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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

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Klee, Paul

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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 put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Heraclitus

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mohammed