Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Menander of Athens

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Carol Burnett

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Heraclitus

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Robbins, Anthony

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Ruskin, John

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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