Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Ruskin, John

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Bible

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Davis, William B.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tracy, Brian

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.