Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Almanac, Mary S.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

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

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

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

Virgil

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

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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

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

Porter, Irene

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Lynn Hall

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Real Live Preacher

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Buffett, Warren

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Waitley, Denis

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen