Motivational Quotes

Change

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Angelou, Maya

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Paul, Jean

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

Harrison Ford

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.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Susan Rice

10.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

11.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

12.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

14.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

15.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

16.

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

Confucius

17.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

18.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

19.

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

20.

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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

22.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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

24.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

25.

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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Hooker, Richard

30.

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

31.

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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Mohammed

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bellin, Gita

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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