Motivational Quotes

Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Heraclitus

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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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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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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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.