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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Carol Burnett

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

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Petworth, John

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ramsay Clark

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Bible

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Virgil

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George