Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

2.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

7.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

8.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

9.

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Kearney

12.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

14.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

15.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

16.

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

Bryant, William C.

17.

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

Mcgovern, William

18.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

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

Tilden, Bill

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

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

Paz, Octavio

22.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

23.

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

Proust, Marcel

24.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

25.

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

Klee, Paul

26.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

27.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Gerhart, Susan

30.

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

Paul, Jean

31.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

32.

Constant change is here to stay.

33.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

34.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

39.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

40.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

42.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

43.

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

Heraclitus

44.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

45.

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

46.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

47.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

48.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

49.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.