Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Nelson Mandela

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Murdock, Mike

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Virgil

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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 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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Tracy, Brian

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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One person's constant is another person's variable.