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 rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Lynn Hall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Menander of Athens

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

Real Live Preacher

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Porter, Irene

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Virgil

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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