Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Paul, Jean

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Naisbitt, John

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

George, David Lloyd

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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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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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Felltham, Owen

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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