Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Change

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Jackson, Jesse

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Draper, John W.

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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

Andy Warhol

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Heraclitus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Constant change is here to stay.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Depree, Max

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Paz, Octavio

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent