Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

11.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Naisbitt, John

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Brown, Les

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

Riley, Pat

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Davis, William B.

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

George, David Lloyd

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

37.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch