Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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.

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

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

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.

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.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Andy Warhol

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

Paul, Jean

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Waitley, Denis

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Carol Burnett

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Virgil

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas