Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kearney

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rohn, Jim

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Bible

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Pope, Alexander

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

10.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

11.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

12.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

13.

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

Murdock, Mike

14.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

15.

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

Herford, Oliver

16.

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

17.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Gerhart, Susan

20.

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

21.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Shelton, Richard

25.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

30.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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.

33.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

34.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

35.

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

36.

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

Watts, Alan W.

37.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

38.

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

39.

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

Ward, William A.

40.

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

41.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

42.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

44.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

46.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James