Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Felltham, Owen

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Lynn Hall

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Confucius

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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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

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas