Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Dewar, Jeff

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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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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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Ruskin, John

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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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

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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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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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.