Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ward, William A.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Pope, Alexander

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Eliot, George

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

18.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Heraclitus

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

40.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

41.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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.

44.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Petworth, John