Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Petworth, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Depree, Max

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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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

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.