Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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.

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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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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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

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Confucius

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Depree, Max

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio