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

1.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

2.

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

Watts, Alan W.

3.

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

Nelson Mandela

4.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

5.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

6.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

12.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

13.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

14.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

15.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

Spencer, Herbert

17.

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

18.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

19.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

20.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

21.

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

22.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

23.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

24.

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

Spander, Art

25.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

26.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

27.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

28.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

29.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

30.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

31.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

32.

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

Jackson, Nelson

33.

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

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

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

36.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

38.

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

Ward, William A.

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

41.

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

42.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

43.

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

Naisbitt, John

44.

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

Herford, Oliver

45.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.