Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

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

Branden, Nathaniel

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Herford, Oliver

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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 a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Andy Warhol

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Davis, William B.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe