Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Freeman, James Dillet

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Lynn Hall

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

Confucius

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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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

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Angelou, Maya

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Depree, Max

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Gandhi, Mahatma