Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Klee, Paul

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Spander, Art

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Heraclitus

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shelton, Richard

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.