Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Petworth, John

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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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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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Heraclitus

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Paul, Jean

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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.