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

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

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

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

Porter, Irene

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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.

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

Spander, Art

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Waitley, Denis

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Menander of Athens

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Music can't change the world.