Motivational Quotes

Change

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Ruskin, John

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis