Motivational Quotes

Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Proust, Marcel

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Christina Baldwin

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Riley, Pat

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Ward, William A.

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Davis, William B.

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