Motivational Quotes

Change

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Heraclitus

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Tracy, Brian

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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.

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Kearney

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Brown, Les

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Petworth, John

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Carlyle, Thomas