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

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

11.

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

12.

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

Angelou, Maya

13.

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

Tracy, Brian

14.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

15.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Heraclitus

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

21.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gerhart, Susan

25.

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

Porter, Irene

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

28.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

29.

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

Andy Warhol

30.

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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

32.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

33.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

34.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

35.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

38.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

39.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

40.

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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

42.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

44.

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

45.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Nelson Mandela