Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Porter, Irene

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

Spander, Art

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

41.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Davis, William B.

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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 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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Lynn Hall

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.