Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Brown, Les

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

Depree, Max

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Buffett, Warren

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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Tracy, Brian

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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