Motivational Quotes

Change

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about 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

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

Riley, Pat

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Ruskin, John

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

Dewar, Jeff

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Confucius

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

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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