Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Real Live Preacher

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Tilden, Bill

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

14.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

15.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

16.

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

Ward, William A.

17.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

18.

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

Carol Burnett

19.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

20.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

21.

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

Robbins, Anthony

22.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

23.

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

Proust, Marcel

24.

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

25.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

26.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

30.

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

Rohn, Jim

31.

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

32.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

33.

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

Kempis, Thomas

34.

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

Kearney

35.

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

36.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

37.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

38.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

39.

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

Draper, John W.

40.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

41.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

42.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

43.

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

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

46.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

47.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

48.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

49.

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

Felltham, Owen

50.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius