Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ruskin, John

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Gerhart, Susan

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Bellin, Gita

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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.

11.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Depree, Max

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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

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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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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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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Tilden, Bill

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carol Burnett

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

39.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid