Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

Bible

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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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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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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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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 has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Depree, Max

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

Proust, Marcel

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Ramsay Clark

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lynn Hall

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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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

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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.

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

Heraclitus