Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

12.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

13.

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

Bailey, Pearl

14.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

19.

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

Udall, Mo

20.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

21.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

22.

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

Bible

23.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

24.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

25.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

26.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

27.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

28.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

30.

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?

31.

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

Hooker, Richard

32.

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

Christina Baldwin

33.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

34.

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

Watts, Alan W.

35.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

36.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

37.

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

Ramsay Clark

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

39.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

40.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

41.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

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

43.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Rogers, Will

49.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.