Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Schoeder, Caroline

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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

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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 the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Heraclitus

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

Murdock, Mike

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela