Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Porter, Irene

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bible

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Riley, Pat

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

27.

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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Waitley, Denis

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Proust, Marcel

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent