Motivational Quotes

Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

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

Tilden, Bill

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Porter, Irene

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

Bellin, Gita

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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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Bible

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Heraclitus

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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