Motivational Quotes

Change

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

- ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Best Quotes about Change

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Eliot, George

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.

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

Mohammed

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Udall, Mo

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bible

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Socrates

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

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles