Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Susan Rice

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Porter, Irene

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

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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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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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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Gerhart, Susan

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Bellin, Gita

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Christina Baldwin

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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 emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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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

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust