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

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

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

Menander of Athens

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

George, David Lloyd

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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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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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Udall, Mo

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

Virgil

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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