Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Constant change is here to stay.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Murdock, Mike

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Buffett, Warren

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Confucius

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

30.

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.

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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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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

44.

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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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.