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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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

Draper, John W.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

14.

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

Dewar, Jeff

15.

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

18.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

19.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Watts, Alan W.

21.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

23.

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

Menander of Athens

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

26.

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

Lynn Hall

27.

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.

28.

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

Susan Rice

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

30.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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

35.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

36.

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

37.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

38.

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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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

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

Eliot, George

42.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.