Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rohn, Jim

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Susan Rice

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

10.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

11.

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

12.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

13.

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

Christina Baldwin

14.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

15.

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

16.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

17.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Mcgovern, William

19.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

George, David Lloyd

21.

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.

22.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

24.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

25.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

26.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

27.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Kearney

31.

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

32.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

33.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

35.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

39.

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

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

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

Murdock, Mike

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

44.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

45.

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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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

48.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

49.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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