Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Brown, Les

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

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

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Kearney

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Porter, Irene

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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 is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Heraclitus

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

Riley, Pat

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius