Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Change

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Heraclitus

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Heraclitus

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Carol Burnett

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Virgil

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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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.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.