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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Constant change is here to stay.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Eliot, George

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Mcgovern, William

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

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

Petworth, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Kempis, Thomas

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Depree, Max

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

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles