Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Harrison Ford

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Davis, William B.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

10.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

11.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

12.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

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

Bailey, Pearl

14.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

18.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

21.

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

Spander, Art

22.

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

Bellin, Gita

23.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

24.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

26.

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

27.

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

Bryant, William C.

28.

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

Draper, John W.

29.

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

Susan Rice

30.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

31.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

32.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

33.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

34.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

35.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

36.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

37.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

38.

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

39.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

40.

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

41.

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

Confucius

42.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

43.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

44.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

45.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

46.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

48.

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

49.

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