Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Best Quotes about Change

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Porter, Irene

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Confucius

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

Carol Burnett

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Bible

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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

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Davis, William B.

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

42.

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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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis