Motivational Quotes

Change

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Eliot, George

2.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

3.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

4.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

5.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

9.

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

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

Shaw, P.K.

11.

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

Lynn Hall

12.

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.

13.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

14.

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

Davis, William B.

15.

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

16.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

17.

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

George, David Lloyd

18.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

19.

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

Gerhart, Susan

20.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

23.

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

24.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

25.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

30.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

31.

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

Watts, Alan W.

32.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

33.

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

Robbins, Anthony

34.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

36.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

37.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

38.

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.

39.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

40.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

41.

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

Bellin, Gita

42.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

43.

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

44.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

45.

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

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

48.

A rut is a grave with no ends.