Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Eliot, George

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Heraclitus

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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Mohammed

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Bible

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Harrison Ford

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Petworth, John

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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Brown, Les

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.