Motivational Quotes

Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Change

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Heraclitus

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Paul, Jean

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Kettering, Charles F.