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

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Heraclitus

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

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

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.

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Petworth, John

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Depree, Max

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Brown, Les

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

Pope, Alexander

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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