Motivational Quotes

Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Change

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Udall, Mo

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

10.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

11.

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

Menander of Athens

12.

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

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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?

31.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Angelou, Maya

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dante Alighieri