Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bastos, Augusto Roa

Best Quotes about Change

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Burke, Edmund

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

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

11.

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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Ruskin, John

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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

31.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

37.

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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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