Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Ward, William A.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Christina Baldwin

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Davis, William B.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

33.

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

Brown, Les

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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

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Andy Warhol

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood