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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

11.

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

Spencer, Herbert

12.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

18.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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.

21.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

29.

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

Brown, Les

30.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Heraclitus

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

Hooker, Richard

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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

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

Shelton, Richard

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

43.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.