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

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

Paul, Jean

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Heraclitus

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

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

Mcgovern, William

10.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Spander, Art

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Brown, Les

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

24.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

25.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Davis, William B.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

35.

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

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Petworth, John

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

Eliot, George

45.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.