Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Mohammed

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

Spander, Art

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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ruskin, John

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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