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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Christina Baldwin

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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