Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Bellin, Gita

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

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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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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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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.

Meryl Streep

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Rogers, Will

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Hooker, Richard

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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