Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shelton, Richard

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Virgil

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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 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

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

20.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Lynn Hall

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Constant change is here to stay.

31.

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

Heraclitus

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bennett, Arnold

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Spander, Art

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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