Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Jackson, Nelson

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Menander of Athens

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

10.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

11.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

12.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

13.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

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

16.

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

Davis, William B.

17.

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

18.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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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

20.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

21.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

22.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

23.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

25.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

27.

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

28.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

29.

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

Hooker, Richard

30.

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

31.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

32.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

Paul, Jean

36.

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

37.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

43.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

44.

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.

45.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

49.

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

Dean, Jimmy

50.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan