Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Best Quotes about Change

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

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Dean, Jimmy

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Andy Warhol

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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 single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Constant change is here to stay.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Davis, William B.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Draper, John W.