Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Christina Baldwin

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Mohammed

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Bellin, Gita

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.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Rogers, Will

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Andy Warhol

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

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Porter, Irene

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Ramsay Clark

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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.