Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Carol Burnett

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

Bennett, Arnold

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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?

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

24.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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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 past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

32.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Andy Warhol

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony