Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Heraclitus

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Petworth, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Klee, Paul

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

19.

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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Einstein, Albert

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Tracy, Brian

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Buffett, Warren

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Tilden, Bill

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

George, David Lloyd