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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

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

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

Klee, Paul

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Naisbitt, John

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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 is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ramsay Clark

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Petworth, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Christina Baldwin

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James