Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shelton, Richard

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

21.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Petworth, John

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Davis, William B.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Virgil

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

Angelou, Maya

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Andy Warhol

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Klee, Paul

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Udall, Mo

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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