Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Mohammed

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

Carol Burnett

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Petworth, John

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Depree, Max

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Virgil

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Proust, Marcel

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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King Whitney Jr.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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