Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Freeman, James Dillet

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Felltham, Owen

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pope, Alexander

13.

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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

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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

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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 only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Heraclitus

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Tilden, Bill

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

32.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Tracy, Brian

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis