Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Petworth, John

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Christina Baldwin

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De