Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

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.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Murdock, Mike

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Naisbitt, John

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Paul, Jean

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Petworth, John

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Confucius

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

Heraclitus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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