Motivational Quotes

Change

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

- Bryson, Lyman L.

Best Quotes about Change

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Riley, Pat

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

Proust, Marcel

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Angelou, Maya

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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