Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

2.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Depree, Max

7.

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

Gerhart, Susan

8.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

9.

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

Christina Baldwin

10.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

15.

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

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

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

Proust, Marcel

19.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

20.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

22.

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

Paul, Jean

23.

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

Dewar, Jeff

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

George, David Lloyd

27.

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

Kempis, Thomas

28.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

29.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

31.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

33.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

34.

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

35.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

36.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

37.

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

38.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

Felltham, Owen

40.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

41.

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

Carol Burnett

42.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

43.

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

Heraclitus

44.

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

Burke, Edmund

45.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

46.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

47.

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

48.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

49.

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

Davis, William B.

50.

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.