Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Spander, Art

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

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Carol Burnett

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

11.

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

Naisbitt, John

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

16.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

25.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Angelou, Maya

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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.

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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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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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

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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.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius