Motivational Quotes

Change

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paul, Jean

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.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Ruskin, John

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Depree, Max

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

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Heraclitus

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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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 you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Shelton, Richard

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Angelou, Maya

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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