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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Paz, Octavio

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.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Menander of Athens

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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 don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Lynn Hall

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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