Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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?

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Klee, Paul

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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 don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Virgil

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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 is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

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

Paz, Octavio

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew