Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

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

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Harrison Ford

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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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 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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Lynn Hall

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

33.

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Davis, William B.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Klee, Paul

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Heraclitus

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas