Motivational Quotes

Change

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Davis, William B.

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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

19.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

20.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

26.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

28.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Sontag, Susan

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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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

37.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

39.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Franklin, Benjamin