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

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

10.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Davis, William B.

12.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

14.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

15.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

16.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

19.

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

Heraclitus

20.

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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

26.

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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

32.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

33.

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

Jackson, Jesse

34.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

35.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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

37.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

38.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

39.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

41.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

42.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

45.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

50.

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

Petworth, John