Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ward, William A.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Shelton, Richard

13.

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

14.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

15.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

18.

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

Kearney

19.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

Constant change is here to stay.

21.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

22.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

23.

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

24.

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

Felltham, Owen

25.

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

Spencer, Herbert

26.

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

Andy Warhol

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Draper, John W.

30.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

31.

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

Davis, William B.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

35.

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

Gerhart, Susan

36.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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.

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

Paul, Jean

39.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

40.

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

41.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

45.

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

46.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

47.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

48.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

49.

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

50.

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