Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Petworth, John

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Heraclitus

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Andy Warhol

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

Bailey, Pearl

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Susan Rice

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

32.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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

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

Lynn Hall

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

Real Live Preacher

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les