Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Buffett, Warren

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Waitley, Denis

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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.

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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 your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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