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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Andy Warhol

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.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

16.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

17.

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

Susan Rice

18.

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

19.

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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Ruskin, John

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

30.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

31.

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

Burke, Edmund

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

33.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

Menander of Athens

35.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

36.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

37.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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

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

Petworth, John

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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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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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

49.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les