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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Rohn, Jim

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

Constant change is here to stay.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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

Heraclitus

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Bible

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

Felltham, Owen

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Depree, Max

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

Carol Burnett

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Harrison Ford

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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