Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Angelou, Maya

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Herford, Oliver

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Depree, Max

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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