Change Quotes

Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.

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"Motion is the only constant in a universe of apparent stillness."
Aristarchus
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"In learning we grow; in stagnation we decay."
Xenophon
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"Progress requires the courage to abandon tradition."
Xenophon
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"Change is the only law of nature."
Xenophon
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"It is our custom to select the best of the old and invent the best of the new."
Thucydides
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"The art of life is in the constant readjustment to our surroundings."
Thucydides
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"Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances"
Herodotus
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"The true author of any change is the one who follows it"
Herodotus
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"Those who refuse to change their minds when presented with new evidence are prisoners of their own pride."
Eratosthenes
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"There is no disease without change, and no health which is absolute stagnation."
Hippocrates
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"Man is composed of constant and incessant change."
Hippocrates
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"Change is the only constant in life."
Pindar
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"The heavens do not change; our understanding of them evolves."
Hipparchus
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"The fixed stars are not fixed; only our understanding of them is meant to be constant."
Hipparchus
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"Nothing endures but change."
Aesop
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"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end."
Thucydides
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"The seed of the future lies in the decisions of today."
Thucydides
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"Every ending is but the beginning of another love story."
Sappho
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"It is often the case that the state of things is reversed."
Herodotus
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"Of all things nothing passes away, but it changes and varies."
Herodotus
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"Every ending is also a beginning."
Herodotus
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"The only constant is change itself."
Herodotus
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"Change is the only constant in nature and in the healing arts."
Hippocrates
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"In the depths of hardship lies the seed of transformation."
Pindar
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"Change is the only constant; embrace it or be crushed beneath its wheels."
Pindar
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"To change the world, one must first change oneself."
Xenophon
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"The man who refuses to change is already dead."
Xenophon
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"The discontent of the winter is the fuel of the spring."
Aesop
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"The void permits movement and change in the world of atoms."
Leucippus
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"All change is merely rearrangement of eternal atoms."
Leucippus