Motivational Quotes

Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Porter, Irene

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Spander, Art

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Susan Rice

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Christina Baldwin

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

George, David Lloyd

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Rogers, Will

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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