Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Change

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

Menander of Athens

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Heraclitus

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Depree, Max

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

Spander, Art

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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

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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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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.