Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

1.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

2.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

3.

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

Waitley, Denis

4.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

5.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

6.

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

Porter, Irene

7.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

8.

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

Klee, Paul

9.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

10.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

11.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

12.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

13.

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

Carol Burnett

14.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

19.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

24.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

25.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

26.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

27.

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

Dewar, Jeff

28.

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

29.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

30.

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

Spencer, Herbert

31.

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

32.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

33.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

34.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

35.

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

36.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

37.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

38.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Rohn, Jim

42.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

43.

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

Proust, Marcel

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

49.

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

Virgil

50.

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

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