Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Waitley, Denis

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

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

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Shelton, Richard

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Lynn Hall

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Heraclitus

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

Davis, William B.

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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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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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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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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