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

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.

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

Watts, Alan W.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Ward, William A.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

10.

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

11.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

George, David Lloyd

16.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Buffett, Warren

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

20.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

21.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Ramsay Clark

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

37.

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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Heraclitus

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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