Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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.

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

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

Draper, John W.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Tracy, Brian

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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 will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Mcgovern, William

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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

Herford, Oliver

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

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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 made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa