Motivational Quotes

Change

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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 main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Spander, Art

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Davis, William B.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.