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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Proust, Marcel

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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.

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Depree, Max

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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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

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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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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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James