Motivational Quotes

Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hooker, Richard

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Confucius

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Andy Warhol

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe