Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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

Carol Burnett

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

10.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

11.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

12.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

13.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

14.

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

15.

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

17.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

18.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

19.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Ward, William A.

21.

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

22.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

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

24.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

25.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

26.

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

28.

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

Lynn Hall

29.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

30.

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

31.

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

A Course In Miracles

32.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

33.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

34.

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

Shaw, P.K.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Spander, Art

38.

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

39.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

40.

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

41.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

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

44.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

45.

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

Heraclitus

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

49.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

50.

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