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

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Schoeder, Caroline

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Tracy, Brian

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Paul, Jean

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

Depree, Max

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

Bible

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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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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Porter, Irene

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Kundera, Milan

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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.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Christina Baldwin

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles