Motivational Quotes

Change

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Petworth, John

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Burke, Edmund

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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 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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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 powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.