Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Kearney

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

Mohammed

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

10.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Davis, William B.

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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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Buffett, Warren

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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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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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Harrison Ford

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.