Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Eliot, George

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Bible

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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 is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Mcgovern, William

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Klee, Paul

20.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

28.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Mohammed

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.