Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Waitley, Denis

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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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.

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

Paul, Jean

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Draper, John W.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Burke, Edmund

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.