Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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

Constant change is here to stay.

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

Rogers, Will

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Dean, Jimmy

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Carol Burnett

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Heraclitus

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Petworth, John

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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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