Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Bible

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Klee, Paul

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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

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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

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

Virgil

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Harrison Ford

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

Lynn Hall

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Petworth, John

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric