Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelton, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

A Course In Miracles

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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

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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 and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Constant change is here to stay.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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