Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Walesa, Lech

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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Davis, William B.

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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 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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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

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

Pickens, T. Boone