Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Christina Baldwin

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Buffett, Warren

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

A Course In Miracles

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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