Motivational Quotes

Change

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Confucius

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Porter, Irene

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Virgil

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

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

Depree, Max

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Spander, Art

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bennett, Arnold

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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