Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Davis, William B.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Einstein, Albert

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Depree, Max

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

Porter, Irene

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Riley, Pat

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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