Motivational Quotes

Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Change

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Bible

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Constant change is here to stay.

19.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Socrates

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Paul, Jean

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

Davis, William B.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Eliot, George

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Confucius

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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.