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

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Petworth, John

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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

Brown, Les

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Susan Rice

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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 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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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

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

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

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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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