Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Robbins, Anthony

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

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.

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

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

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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.

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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 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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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Menander of Athens

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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