Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Petworth, John

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ward, William A.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Gerhart, Susan

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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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

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Klee, Paul

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Andy Warhol

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

Kearney

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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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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline