Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes but change.

- Zangwill, Israel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Gerhart, Susan

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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

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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

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Eliot, George

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Rohn, Jim