Motivational Quotes

Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Buffett, Warren

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Petworth, John

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Susan Rice

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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 the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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