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

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Bible

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mcgovern, William

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Carol Burnett

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

Churchill, Winston

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Tilden, Bill

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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

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Angelou, Maya

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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