Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Eliot, George

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Virgil

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Socrates

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Tracy, Brian

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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 world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio