Motivational Quotes

Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Andy Warhol

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Ruskin, John

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

31.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Davis, William B.

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Herford, Oliver

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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.