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 always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Jackson, Jesse

12.

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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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.

15.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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

17.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

18.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

19.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

22.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

25.

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

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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.

28.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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

31.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

32.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

34.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

35.

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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

39.

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

Harrison Ford

40.

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

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

43.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Music can't change the world.