Motivational Quotes

Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

- Moorse, Gene

Best Quotes about Change

1.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

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

3.

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

Heraclitus

4.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

5.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

6.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

7.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

8.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

9.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

10.

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

11.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

12.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

13.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Lee, Bruce

15.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

Kempis, Thomas

18.

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

Paul, Jean

19.

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

20.

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

Murdock, Mike

21.

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

Virgil

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Spencer, Herbert

25.

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

26.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

27.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

28.

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.

29.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

31.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Draper, John W.

33.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

34.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

35.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

36.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

37.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

39.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

40.

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

41.

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

Confucius

42.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

43.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

44.

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

45.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

46.

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

47.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

48.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

49.

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

Butterworth, Eric

50.

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