Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Ramsay Clark

10.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

11.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

12.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

13.

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

Mohammed

14.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

15.

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

Confucius

16.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

17.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

Ward, William A.

20.

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

Waitley, Denis

21.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

22.

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

23.

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

Tracy, Brian

24.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

25.

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

26.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

27.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

28.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

29.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

33.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

34.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

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

Naisbitt, John

36.

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

37.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

39.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

40.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

41.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

42.

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

43.

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

Andy Warhol

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Davis, William B.

46.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

47.

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

Felltham, Owen

48.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

49.

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

50.

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.