Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Bryant, William C.

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

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Sontag, Susan

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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 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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Petworth, John

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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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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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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

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

Carol Burnett

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

39.

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

Confucius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Tilden, Bill

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Hoffer, Eric