Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Einstein, Albert

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Heraclitus

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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

23.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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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 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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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