Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Nelson Mandela

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Andy Warhol

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Porter, Irene

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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?

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

Buffett, Warren