Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

10.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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

12.

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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Paul, Jean

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

17.

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

Christina Baldwin

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

19.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

20.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Schoeder, Caroline

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Depree, Max

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hooker, Richard

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

36.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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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