Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Change

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

22.

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 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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

25.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

32.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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