Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Tracy, Brian

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Constant change is here to stay.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

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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

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, William B.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Naisbitt, John

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Burke, Edmund

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Heraclitus

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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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