Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Waitley, Denis

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

Heraclitus

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Porter, Irene

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

Rohn, Jim

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Depree, Max

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Brown, Les

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

George, David Lloyd

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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