Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

1.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

2.

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

Eliot, George

3.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

4.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

5.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

6.

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

7.

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?

8.

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

9.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Harrison Ford

11.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

12.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

13.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

14.

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

Robbins, Anthony

15.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

18.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

19.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

20.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

21.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

22.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

23.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

24.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

30.

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.

31.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

32.

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.

33.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

34.

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.

Mailer, Norman

35.

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

36.

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

Menander of Athens

37.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides