Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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.

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Susan Rice

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

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

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

Dean, Jimmy

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

12.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Depree, Max

14.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

15.

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.

16.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

17.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

18.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

19.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

20.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

21.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

22.

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

Murdock, Mike

23.

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

Rohn, Jim

24.

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

Andy Warhol

25.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

26.

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.

27.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

28.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

29.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

33.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

34.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

35.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

36.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

37.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

38.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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

40.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

44.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

45.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

46.

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

47.

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

Dewar, Jeff

48.

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