Motivational Quotes

Change

Music can't change the world.

- Geldof, Bob

Best Quotes about Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Davis, William B.

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

Petworth, John

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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.

23.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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