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

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

Bellin, Gita

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

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

Petworth, John

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

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

Virgil

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Heraclitus

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Tracy, Brian

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Spander, Art

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les