Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter 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

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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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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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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 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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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Confucius

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

Spander, Art

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

Shelton, Richard

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Rogers, Will

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne