Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Drucker, Peter F.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Harrison Ford

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

10.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

12.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Udall, Mo

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Menander of Athens

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

24.

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.

25.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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.

27.

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

28.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

A Course In Miracles

31.

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

Paul, Jean

32.

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

Confucius

33.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eliot, George

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dewar, Jeff

40.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

41.

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

42.

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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

44.

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?

45.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy