Motivational Quotes

Change

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Change

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

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

Spander, Art

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Bible

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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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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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Virgil

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Felltham, Owen

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.