Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

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

Churchill, Winston

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Angelou, Maya

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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.

17.

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

Susan Rice

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

21.

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

Spander, Art

23.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Naisbitt, John

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

43.

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

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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 suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul