Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

10.

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

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bailey, Pearl

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Buffett, Warren

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan