Motivational Quotes

Change

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

- I Ching

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

3.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

4.

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

Watts, Alan W.

5.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

6.

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

7.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

8.

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

Paz, Octavio

9.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

10.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

11.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

12.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

13.

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

Waitley, Denis

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

16.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

17.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Kearney

21.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

22.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

23.

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

24.

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

Klee, Paul

25.

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

Lynn Hall

26.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

32.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

33.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

34.

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

35.

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

Ward, William A.

36.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

37.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

38.

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

Paul, Jean

39.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

44.

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