Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Naisbitt, John

10.

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

11.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

12.

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

Susan Rice

13.

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

14.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

15.

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?

16.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

17.

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

18.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

21.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

22.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

23.

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

Shelton, Richard

24.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

25.

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

Jackson, Jesse

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Murdock, Mike

29.

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

30.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

32.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

37.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

38.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

39.

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

40.

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

Proust, Marcel

41.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

42.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

44.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

45.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

46.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

50.

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

Waitley, Denis