Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Adalphos, General

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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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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Riley, Pat

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Carol Burnett

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.