Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Spander, Art

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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

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

Heraclitus

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Carol Burnett

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

Paul, Jean

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Porter, Irene

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

Davis, William B.

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.