Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

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

Confucius

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

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

Carol Burnett

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

11.

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

12.

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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Susan Rice

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

Eliot, George

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

Bellin, Gita

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

37.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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

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

Ramsay Clark

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

A Course In Miracles

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Bible

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Christina Baldwin