Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

2.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

3.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

4.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

5.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

6.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

7.

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

8.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

9.

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

10.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

11.

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

Felltham, Owen

12.

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

Ward, William A.

13.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

14.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

16.

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

Angelou, Maya

17.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

18.

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

19.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

20.

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

Harrison Ford

21.

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.

22.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

25.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

26.

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

Walesa, Lech

27.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

28.

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

Draper, John W.

29.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

30.

Constant change is here to stay.

31.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

32.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

33.

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

Confucius

34.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

35.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

36.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

37.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

38.

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

39.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

40.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

41.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

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

43.

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

Davis, William B.

44.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

47.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

48.

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

Paz, Octavio

49.

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

50.

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