Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Change

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Udall, Mo

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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