Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Heraclitus

2.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

3.

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

Bellin, Gita

4.

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

Bryant, William C.

5.

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

Draper, John W.

6.

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

Ward, William A.

7.

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

8.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

9.

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

10.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

11.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

12.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

13.

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

Kempis, Thomas

14.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

16.

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

Felltham, Owen

17.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

18.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

20.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Shelton, Richard

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

Mcgovern, William

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Nelson Mandela

26.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

27.

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.

28.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

30.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

31.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

32.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

34.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

35.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

36.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

37.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

38.

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

Herford, Oliver

39.

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

Paul, Jean

40.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Bacon, Francis

44.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

45.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

46.

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.

47.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

48.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

49.

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

Proust, Marcel

50.

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