Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Change

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

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

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

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

Dante Alighieri

10.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

12.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Bennett, Arnold

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

20.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

25.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

27.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

28.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

31.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Constant change is here to stay.

33.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Petworth, John

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell