Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Davis, William B.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

10.

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

11.

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

Spander, Art

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

16.

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

17.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

18.

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

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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.

28.

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

Rogers, Will

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita