Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change, we do.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Change

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Glasgow, Ellen

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Tracy, Brian

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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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.

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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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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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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Proust, Marcel

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Herford, Oliver