Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Petworth, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

Churchill, Winston

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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

Bible

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Murdock, Mike

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Carol Burnett

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

George, David Lloyd

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Socrates

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

Tilden, Bill

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Harrison Ford

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Heraclitus

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.