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

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

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Heraclitus

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

18.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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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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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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Spander, Art

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

35.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will 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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Porter, Irene

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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