Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Change

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Ramsay Clark

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Paul, Jean

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

11.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

13.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

18.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

19.

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

Shaw, P.K.

20.

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

21.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

28.

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

Robbins, Anthony

29.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

30.

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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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.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Buffett, Warren

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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