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 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

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

Brown, Les

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Udall, Mo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Eliot, George

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Constant change is here to stay.

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone