Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Change alone is unchanging.

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

Petworth, John

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bible

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.