Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Christina Baldwin

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.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Porter, Irene

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

Petworth, John

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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 yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Shelton, Richard

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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

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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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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

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail