Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

A Course In Miracles

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Heraclitus

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

Susan Rice

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Spander, Art

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Constant change is here to stay.

25.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Davis, William B.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bible

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Carol Burnett

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Andy Warhol

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.