Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Felltham, Owen

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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

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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

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

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Angelou, Maya

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Bryant, William C.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Spander, Art

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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 most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.