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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Eliot, George

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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

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

Lynn Hall

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, 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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Porter, Irene

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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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

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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