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

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

Socrates

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

Lee, Bruce

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

Constant change is here to stay.

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

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

10.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Spander, Art

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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.

21.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Andy Warhol

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus