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

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

10.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

13.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

14.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

15.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

17.

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

Susan Rice

18.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

19.

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

Paul, Jean

20.

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

21.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

22.

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

Angelou, Maya

23.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

25.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

26.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

28.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

29.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

30.

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

31.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

32.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

33.

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

34.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

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

Heraclitus

37.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

40.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

41.

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?

42.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

43.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

44.

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

Shelton, Richard

45.

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

46.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

47.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

48.

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.

49.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul