Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Virgil

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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

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Kempis, Thomas

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

George, David Lloyd

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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

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

Murdock, Mike

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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