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

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.

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

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

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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 seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Christina Baldwin

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Harrison Ford

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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