Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

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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.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Heraclitus

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Dewar, Jeff

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Christina Baldwin

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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 is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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