Motivational Quotes

Change

In pain is a new time born.

- Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Mcgovern, William

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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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 the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Heraclitus

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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 means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Angelou, Maya

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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.

39.

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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gerhart, Susan

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People can cry much easier than they can change.