Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Jackson, Nelson

2.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

3.

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

4.

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

Bennett, Arnold

5.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

6.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

7.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

8.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

9.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

10.

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

Hooker, Richard

11.

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

Virgil

12.

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

Andy Warhol

13.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

14.

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

15.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

16.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

18.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

19.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

22.

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

23.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

25.

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

Paz, Octavio

26.

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

Ruskin, John

27.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

29.

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

Ramsay Clark

30.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

31.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

32.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

33.

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

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

36.

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

Bryant, William C.

37.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

38.

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

Proust, Marcel

39.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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.

42.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

43.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

44.

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

Real Live Preacher

45.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

46.

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

47.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

49.

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

Depree, Max

50.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.