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 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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

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

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

10.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

11.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

14.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

15.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

16.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

17.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

18.

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

Petworth, John

19.

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

20.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

21.

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

Mcgovern, William

22.

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

Heraclitus

23.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

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

Waitley, Denis

25.

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

Virgil

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

28.

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.

29.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

30.

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

31.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

32.

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

33.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

34.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

35.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

36.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

37.