Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Socrates

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

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

Murdock, Mike

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

11.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Rogers, Will

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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