Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Klee, Paul

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Einstein, Albert

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

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

Menander of Athens

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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.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Paz, Octavio

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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

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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 has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Virgil

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.