Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Change

1.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

2.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

3.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

4.

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

Klee, Paul

5.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

6.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

7.

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

8.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

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

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

18.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

19.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

20.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

21.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

22.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

23.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

24.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

25.

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

Paz, Octavio

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

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

28.

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

Butterworth, Eric

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

32.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

33.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

34.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

35.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

36.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

37.

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

38.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

40.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

41.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

42.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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.

44.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

45.

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

Bible

46.

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.

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

49.

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

50.

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