Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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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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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?

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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

Heraclitus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Harrison Ford

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.