Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Constant change is here to stay.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Real Live Preacher

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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

Carol Burnett

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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.

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

Andy Warhol

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.