Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Churchill, Winston

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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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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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Petworth, John

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Shelton, Richard

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Udall, Mo

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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