Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Mcgovern, William

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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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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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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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Pope, Alexander

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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 powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Dean, Jimmy

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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