Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

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

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

15.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Felltham, Owen

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Harrison Ford

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Bryant, William C.