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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Mohammed

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

Proust, Marcel

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.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Petworth, John

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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

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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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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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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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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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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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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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