Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Change

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

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

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

12.

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

Ruskin, John

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Menander of Athens

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Spander, Art

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.