Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Change

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

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.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Bible

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

12.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Confucius

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Spander, Art

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

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Porter, Irene

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe