Motivational Quotes

Change

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

- Martha Beck

Best Quotes about Change

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Brown, Les

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.

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

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

11.

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

Watts, Alan W.

12.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Carol Burnett

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Confucius

20.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

21.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

22.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

23.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

24.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

25.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Herford, Oliver

29.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

30.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

31.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

33.

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

34.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

36.

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

Bellin, Gita

37.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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

39.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

40.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

41.

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

Naisbitt, John

42.

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

43.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

44.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

45.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

46.

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

Gerhart, Susan

47.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

48.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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

50.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.