Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

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

Porter, Irene

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dewar, Jeff

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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 wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Menander of Athens

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Christina Baldwin

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Carol Burnett

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John