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

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

10.

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

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

13.

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

Kearney

14.

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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

19.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

20.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

24.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

25.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

28.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

29.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

30.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

33.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Davis, William B.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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 fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

39.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

40.

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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

42.

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 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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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