Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ramsay Clark

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

2.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

3.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

4.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

5.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

6.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

7.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

8.

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

Klee, Paul

9.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

10.

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

11.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

12.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

13.

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

Bennett, Arnold

14.

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

15.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

16.

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.

17.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

18.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

19.

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

Confucius

20.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

21.

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

22.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

23.

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

24.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

26.

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

Paul, Jean

27.

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

Mohammed

28.

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

29.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

30.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

32.

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

33.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

34.

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

Pope, Alexander

35.

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

Socrates

36.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

37.

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

Walesa, Lech

38.

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

Dewar, Jeff

39.

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

40.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

41.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

42.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

43.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

44.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

45.

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

46.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

47.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

48.

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

Harrison Ford

49.

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

50.

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.