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

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Spander, Art

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Tracy, Brian

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Confucius

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Menander of Athens

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Virgil

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Proust, Marcel

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David