Motivational Quotes

Change

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

- ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Best Quotes about Change

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

Lee, Bruce

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Churchill, Winston

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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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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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Depree, Max

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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Paul, Jean

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

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eliot, George