Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Draper, John W.

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

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Mohammed

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

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

Naisbitt, John

13.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

14.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Paul, Jean

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Christina Baldwin

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

39.

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

41.

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

Petworth, John

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.