Motivational Quotes

Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Change

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Butterworth, Eric

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Virgil

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Mohammed

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bible

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Tilden, Bill

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Ruskin, John

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Andy Warhol

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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