Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

The only people who like change are wet babies.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Socrates

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tracy, Brian

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Tilden, Bill

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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 not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shaw, P.K.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Heraclitus

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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

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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.

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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