Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Felltham, Owen

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Petworth, John

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Herford, Oliver

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren