Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dewar, Jeff

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Tracy, Brian

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rogers, Will

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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