Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Lynn Hall

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

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

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

Angelou, Maya

10.

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

Depree, Max

11.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

33.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Waitley, Denis

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