Motivational Quotes

Change

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Murdock, Mike

2.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

3.

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

Gerhart, Susan

4.

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

5.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

6.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

7.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

8.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

9.

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.

10.

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

Bellin, Gita

11.

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

12.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

14.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

15.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

16.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

17.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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.

20.

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

Dante Alighieri

21.

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

Lee, Bruce

22.

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

Ramsay Clark

23.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

24.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

Spander, Art

28.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

29.

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

Herford, Oliver

30.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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.

33.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

34.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

35.

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

Sontag, Susan

36.

Things do not change; we change.