Motivational Quotes

Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Change

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

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Spencer, Herbert

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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.

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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.

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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

15.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

28.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

36.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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 change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Depree, Max

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Heraclitus

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.