Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Murdock, Mike

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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