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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Christina Baldwin

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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 struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Kundera, Milan

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Depree, Max

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

Carol Burnett

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

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Confucius

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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