Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

1.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

2.

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

Watts, Alan W.

3.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

4.

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

Robbins, Anthony

5.

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

Gerhart, Susan

6.

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

Dante Alighieri

7.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

8.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

9.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

10.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

11.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

14.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

16.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

18.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

19.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

20.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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.

22.

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

Ward, William A.

23.

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

Shelton, Richard

24.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

25.

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

Heraclitus

26.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

27.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

28.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

29.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

30.

Constant change is here to stay.

31.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

32.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

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

34.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

35.

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

Mcgovern, William

36.

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

37.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

39.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

40.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

41.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

43.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

45.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

46.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

47.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

48.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

49.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

50.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.