Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

2.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

3.

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

Harrison Ford

4.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

5.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

6.

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

Einstein, Albert

7.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

8.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

9.

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

10.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Proust, Marcel

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

14.

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

15.

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

Rogers, Will

16.

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

Gerhart, Susan

17.

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

Virgil

18.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

19.

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

Dewar, Jeff

20.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

21.

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

Draper, John W.

22.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

23.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

24.

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

25.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

26.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

27.

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

A Course In Miracles

28.

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

Mohammed

29.

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

30.

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

Herford, Oliver

31.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

32.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

33.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

35.

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

36.

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

37.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

38.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

39.

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

Bellin, Gita

40.

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

41.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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.

43.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

44.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

45.

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

Walesa, Lech

46.

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

Paul, Jean