Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Nelson Mandela

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.

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.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Harrison Ford

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Naisbitt, John

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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

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

Klee, Paul

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