Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryant, William C.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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.

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.

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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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.

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bible

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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

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Andy Warhol

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.