Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Change

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

Felltham, Owen

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Spander, Art

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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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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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

28.

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?

29.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Change alone is unchanging.

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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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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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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

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Walesa, Lech

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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