Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Petworth, John

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Felltham, Owen

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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gerhart, Susan

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Porter, Irene

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

Shaw, P.K.

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.