Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Tracy, Brian

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

10.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

11.

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.

13.

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

18.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Bible

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

Confucius

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

Branden, Nathaniel

35.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

38.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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

40.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Glasgow, Ellen

43.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

44.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Burke, Edmund

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

A Course In Miracles