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

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Robbins, Anthony

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Paul, Jean

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

10.

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

11.

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

12.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

13.

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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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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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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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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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

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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.

20.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

21.

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

Heraclitus

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dean, Jimmy

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

28.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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

30.

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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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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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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?

35.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Davis, William B.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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