Motivational Quotes

Change

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Mohammed

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

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

Virgil

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Lee, Bruce

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Burke, Edmund

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

50.

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.