Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Change

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

Felltham, Owen

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Depree, Max

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

10.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

11.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

12.

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

Virgil

13.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

16.

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

Menander of Athens

17.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

18.

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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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

20.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

21.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

25.

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.

26.

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

Nelson Mandela

27.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

28.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

29.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

30.

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

Gerhart, Susan

31.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

32.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

33.

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

34.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

35.

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

36.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

38.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

39.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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

44.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

45.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.