Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Naisbitt, John

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Andy Warhol

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Paul, Jean

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Davis, William B.

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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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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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius