Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Buffett, Warren

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Virgil

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

24.

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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nelson Mandela

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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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 do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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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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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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus