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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Porter, Irene

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Carol Burnett

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Christina Baldwin

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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