Motivational Quotes

Change

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Spander, Art

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

18.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

19.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

28.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Harrison Ford

32.

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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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Ruskin, John

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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