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

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Bellin, Gita

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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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

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

Porter, Irene

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Ruskin, John

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

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Petworth, John

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bible

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

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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.