Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mazzini, Giuseppe

Best Quotes about Change

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

Freeman, James Dillet

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Ramsay Clark

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Spander, Art

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

17.

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

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Shelton, Richard

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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