Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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

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

Heraclitus

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Depree, Max

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

Kempis, Thomas

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

12.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

13.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Virgil

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

Petworth, John

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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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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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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