Motivational Quotes

Change

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

- Walesa, Lech

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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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 fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Angelou, Maya

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Porter, Irene

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Bible

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

A Course In Miracles

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.