Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

10.

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

11.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

12.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Confucius

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

Gerhart, Susan

18.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

25.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

28.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

29.

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

30.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

37.

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

Virgil

38.

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

Kearney

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David