Motivational Quotes

Change

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Virgil

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Confucius

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

Hooker, Richard

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Rohn, Jim

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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