Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Walesa, Lech

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

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

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Petworth, John

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 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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Virgil

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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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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Carol Burnett

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

31.

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

Bryant, William C.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di