Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Susan Rice

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Harrison Ford

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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.

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

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Davis, William B.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Ruskin, John

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Felltham, Owen

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Carol Burnett

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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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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas