Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Change

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

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

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

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

Petworth, John

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

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Paul, Jean

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Heraclitus

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Angelou, Maya

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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