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

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Ramsay Clark

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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?

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Ovid

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George