Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Change

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Christina Baldwin

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

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Porter, Irene

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Petworth, John

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Brown, Les

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Spander, Art

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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

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Bible

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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Tracy, Brian

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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