Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Change

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Kempis, Thomas

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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.

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Lynn Hall

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Depree, Max

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bible

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.