Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Petworth, John

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Virgil

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Shaw, P.K.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Heraclitus

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

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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

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Davis, William B.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Heraclitus

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul