Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Udall, Mo

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Sontag, Susan

10.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Naisbitt, John

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Klee, Paul

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Heraclitus

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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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck