Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Change

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

Naisbitt, John

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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?

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Susan Rice

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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.

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

10.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

11.

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

Virgil

12.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

13.

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

Udall, Mo

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

Tracy, Brian

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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 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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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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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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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 things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Sinetar, Marsha

43.

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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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