Motivational Quotes

Change

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Harrison Ford

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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.

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

Bible

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

Shelton, Richard

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

10.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

12.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

16.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

18.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

19.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

20.

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

21.

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

Naisbitt, John

22.

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

23.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

25.

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

Riley, Pat

26.

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

Dante Alighieri

27.

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

28.

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

Andy Warhol

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

31.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

32.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

33.

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

34.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

35.

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

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

38.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

39.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

40.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

41.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

43.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

46.

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

Paul, Jean

47.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

48.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

50.

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