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

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.

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

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

Heraclitus

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

George, David Lloyd

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Lynn Hall

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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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