Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

- D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Best Quotes about Change

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Nelson Mandela

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Depree, Max

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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.

12.

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

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Mohammed

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Porter, Irene

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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

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline