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

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

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Rohn, Jim

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Depree, Max

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.