Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Angelou, Maya

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

21.

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

Susan Rice

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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