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 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

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

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

Draper, John W.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Eliot, George

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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

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

Real Live Preacher

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Einstein, Albert

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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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

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.