Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Change

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Paul, Jean

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Christina Baldwin

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Davis, William B.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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