Motivational Quotes

Change

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Constant change is here to stay.

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Depree, Max

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Davis, William B.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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

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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