Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Klee, Paul

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Paul, Jean

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Spander, Art

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.