Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Tilden, Bill

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Paul, Jean

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Ruskin, John

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Petworth, John

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Davis, William B.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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.

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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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.

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold