Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Change

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Mohammed

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

12.

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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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

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

Carol Burnett

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Klee, Paul

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

29.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

38.

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

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Virgil

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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