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 thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Petworth, John

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Andy Warhol

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

Bailey, Pearl

11.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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 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.

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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 the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

32.

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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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lynn Hall

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

Spander, Art

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Depree, Max

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.