Motivational Quotes

Change

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

- Braude, Jacob M.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Depree, Max

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lynn Hall

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Churchill, Winston

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Bellin, Gita

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Petworth, John

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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.