Motivational Quotes

Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

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

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Brown, Les

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Shelton, Richard

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Real Live Preacher

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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

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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