Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Butterworth, Eric

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Carol Burnett

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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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 is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Depree, Max

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Menander of Athens

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

42.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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

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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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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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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.