Motivational Quotes

Change

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

- Lynn Hall

Best Quotes about Change

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Porter, Irene

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Spander, Art

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

Christina Baldwin

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Proust, Marcel

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

31.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Tracy, Brian

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Hooker, Richard

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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