Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Susan Rice

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

10.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

12.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Eliot, George

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Klee, Paul

23.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Paul, Jean

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

A Course In Miracles

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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 yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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