Motivational Quotes

Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shelton, Richard

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Angelou, Maya

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Churchill, Winston

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

13.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Naisbitt, John

21.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

24.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Kearney

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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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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Carol Burnett

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

Riley, Pat

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony