Motivational Quotes

Change

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Change

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Tilden, Bill

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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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.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Confucius

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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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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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Ramsay Clark