Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Maslow, Abraham H.

Best Quotes about Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

10.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

11.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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 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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Angelou, Maya

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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 tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

30.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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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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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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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew