Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Mohammed

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

11.

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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

17.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Heraclitus

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

Churchill, Winston

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Ward, William A.

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Constant change is here to stay.

33.

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 such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Virgil

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Carol Burnett

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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