Motivational Quotes

Change

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

- Cleaver, Eldridge

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

2.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

3.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

4.

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

Brown, Les

5.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

6.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

7.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

8.

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

Felltham, Owen

9.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

10.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

11.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

13.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

14.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

15.

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

16.

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

17.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

18.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

21.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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.

26.

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

Herford, Oliver

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

29.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

30.

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

Paul, Jean

31.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

32.

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

Lee, Bruce

33.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

34.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

35.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

36.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

37.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

40.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

41.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

42.

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

Real Live Preacher

43.

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

44.

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

Nelson Mandela

45.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.