Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Spander, Art

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

Tilden, Bill

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

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

10.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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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

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

Petworth, John

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

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Ward, William A.

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

A Course In Miracles

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

48.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les