Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Confucius

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

Porter, Irene

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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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

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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