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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Brown, Les

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Spander, Art

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Carol Burnett

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

Susan Rice

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Heraclitus

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus