Motivational Quotes

Change

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Change

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Heraclitus

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

27.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Depree, Max

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

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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

33.

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

Susan Rice

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela