Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about 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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Spander, Art

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

Proust, Marcel

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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 are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Petworth, John

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Churchill, Winston

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Sontag, Susan

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George, David Lloyd

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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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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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