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

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Bellin, Gita

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Davis, William B.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius