Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

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

Bacon, Francis

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Bryant, William C.

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

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Christina Baldwin

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Heraclitus

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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

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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 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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Tilden, Bill

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Ruskin, John

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington