Motivational Quotes

Change

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

- Kabbalah

Best Quotes about Change

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Burke, Edmund

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Confucius

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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 not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Tilden, Bill

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Murdock, Mike

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.