Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Klee, Paul

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

11.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bellin, Gita

17.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

19.

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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Petworth, John

41.

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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Carol Burnett

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund