Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Udall, Mo

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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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

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

Confucius

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

31.

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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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

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

Bellin, Gita

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Bible

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne