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

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Angelou, Maya

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Andy Warhol

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.

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

14.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Paul, Jean

16.

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

17.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

18.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Heraclitus

21.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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.

25.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

26.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

27.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

28.

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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Lee, Bruce

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Constant change is here to stay.

37.

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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Brown, Les

45.

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

46.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

47.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

49.

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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara