Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Real Live Preacher

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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.

10.

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

Ward, William A.

11.

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

Lynn Hall

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

13.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Andy Warhol

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Confucius