Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

2.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

3.

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

4.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

5.

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

6.

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

Petworth, John

7.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

8.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

9.

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

Bailey, Pearl

10.

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.

11.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

12.

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

Proust, Marcel

13.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

14.

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

15.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

16.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

17.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

18.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

19.

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

Hooker, Richard

20.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

23.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

24.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

29.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

30.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

31.

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

32.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

33.

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

Tilden, Bill

34.

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

Andy Warhol

35.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

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

Menander of Athens

37.

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

38.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

39.

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

Depree, Max

40.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

41.

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

Real Live Preacher

42.

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

Kempis, Thomas

43.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

44.

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

45.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

46.

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

Jackson, Nelson

47.

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

48.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.