Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Change

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

Susan Rice

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Angelou, Maya

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

13.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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 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

16.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Depree, Max

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

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John