Motivational Quotes

Change

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

- Freeman, James Dillet

Best Quotes about Change

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Paz, Octavio

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Susan Rice

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Walesa, Lech

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Heraclitus

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

George, David Lloyd