Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Klee, Paul

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Paz, Octavio

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Susan Rice

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

Ruskin, John

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

Walesa, Lech

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Davis, William B.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Mohammed

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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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.