Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Socrates

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Mohammed

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Shaw, P.K.

25.

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Tracy, Brian

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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