Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paz, Octavio

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

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.

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Churchill, Winston

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Heraclitus

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Davis, William B.

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

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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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Bible

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Lynn Hall

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les