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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

10.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Depree, Max

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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

13.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Kundera, Milan

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

20.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Eliot, George

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

27.

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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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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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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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

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

Confucius

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Petworth, John

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy