Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Almanac, Mary S.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Heraclitus

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

Waitley, Denis

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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

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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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Bible

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Angelou, Maya

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Draper, John W.

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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

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.