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

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

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

Depree, Max

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Spander, Art

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Heraclitus

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Virgil

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Eliot, George

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

Porter, Irene

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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