Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Sontag, Susan

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Bellin, Gita

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Klee, Paul

12.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Confucius

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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

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

Real Live Preacher

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

22.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

24.

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

Susan Rice

25.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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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

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Mcgovern, William

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The moment of change is the only poem.