Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

10.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

11.

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

12.

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

Menander of Athens

13.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

14.

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

15.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

16.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

17.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

20.

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

Susan Rice

21.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

22.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

23.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

24.

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

Carol Burnett

25.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

26.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

27.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

28.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

29.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

30.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

31.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

32.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

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

34.

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

Murdock, Mike

35.

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

Socrates

36.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

39.

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

Draper, John W.

40.

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

Heraclitus

41.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

42.

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

43.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

44.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

49.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

50.

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

Freeman, James Dillet