Motivational Quotes

Change

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

- ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Best Quotes about Change

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.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Heraclitus

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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