Motivational Quotes

Change

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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