Motivational Quotes

Change

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Naisbitt, John

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Andy Warhol

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

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Depree, Max

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Petworth, John

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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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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

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Constant change is here to stay.

39.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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