Motivational Quotes

Change

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Porter, Irene

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

Andy Warhol

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

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

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ruskin, John

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Burke, Edmund

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ramsay Clark

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Dewar, Jeff

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art