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

1.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

2.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

3.

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

Spencer, Herbert

4.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

5.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

6.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

7.

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

Naisbitt, John

8.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

9.

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

10.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

11.

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

12.

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

Confucius

13.

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.

14.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

17.

Constant change is here to stay.

18.

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

Bellin, Gita

19.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

Bryant, William C.

22.

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

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

25.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

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

27.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

28.

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

29.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

30.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

31.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

32.

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

Jackson, Nelson

33.

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

34.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

35.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

36.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

Andy Warhol

38.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

39.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

40.

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.

41.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

42.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Ramsay Clark

46.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

Waitley, Denis

48.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

49.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

50.

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