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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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

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

Susan Rice

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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 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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Eliot, George

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von