Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Maslow, Abraham H.

Best Quotes about Change

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Constant change is here to stay.

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Heraclitus

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Freeman, James Dillet