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

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Paz, Octavio

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.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Sontag, Susan

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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.

14.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Felltham, Owen

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Klee, Paul

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Christina Baldwin

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

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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

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone