Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Constant change is here to stay.

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Tilden, Bill

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Ward, William A.

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Bacon, Francis

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Heraclitus

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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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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

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

43.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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

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

Spander, Art

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Virgil

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.