Motivational Quotes

Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Change

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

Jackson, Jesse

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.

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.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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?

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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 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.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Spander, Art

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Petworth, John

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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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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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

40.

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

41.

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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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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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

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

Porter, Irene

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic