Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Depree, Max

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Petworth, John

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

11.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

A Course In Miracles

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Kearney

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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

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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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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Paul, Jean

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Ruskin, John

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Heraclitus

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus