Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

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

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Depree, Max

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.

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

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

10.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

13.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

14.

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

Christina Baldwin

15.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

18.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Paul, Jean

20.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

25.

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

Spander, Art

26.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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

28.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

29.

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

Porter, Irene

30.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

31.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

32.

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

33.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

34.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

35.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

39.

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

40.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Riley, Pat

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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

46.

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

Virgil

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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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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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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa