Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

George, David Lloyd

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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.

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

Dante Alighieri

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

12.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

16.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Heraclitus

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony