Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

- D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Best Quotes about Change

1.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

2.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

3.

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

Spencer, Herbert

4.

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

5.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

6.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

7.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

8.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

9.

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

10.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

11.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

12.

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

13.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

14.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

15.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

16.

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.

17.

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

Rohn, Jim

18.

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

19.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

20.

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

21.

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

Burke, Edmund

22.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

23.

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

24.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

25.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

27.

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

Bryant, William C.

28.

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

Proust, Marcel

29.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

30.

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

Confucius

31.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

32.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

33.

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

Bennett, Arnold

34.

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

Paul, Jean

35.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

36.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

37.

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

38.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

George, David Lloyd

40.

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

41.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.