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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Confucius

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

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Menander of Athens

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Mohammed

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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.

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Klee, Paul

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

Spander, Art

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius