Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Schuller, Robert H.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

10.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

11.

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

Rogers, Will

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

George, David Lloyd

23.

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Bible

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon