Motivational Quotes

Change

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Change

Robbins, Anthony

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

Murdock, Mike

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Socrates

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Virgil

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

10.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

13.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

14.

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

15.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

16.

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

17.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

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

Harrison Ford

19.

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

Carol Burnett

20.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

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

23.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

24.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

25.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

26.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

27.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

28.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

29.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

30.

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

Paul, Jean

31.

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.

32.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

33.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

34.

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

Menander of Athens

35.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Susan Rice

41.

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

Dean, Jimmy

42.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

43.

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

Dewar, Jeff

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

Pope, Alexander

46.

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

47.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

48.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

49.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

50.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.