Motivational Quotes

Change

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

- Ryan, Nolan

Best Quotes about Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Ruskin, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Menander of Athens

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

10.

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

Depree, Max

11.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

12.

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

13.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

14.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

16.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

17.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

18.

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

19.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Butterworth, Eric

23.

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

24.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

25.

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

Udall, Mo

26.

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

27.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

28.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

30.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

31.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

32.

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

Herford, Oliver

33.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

36.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

37.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mohammed

39.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

40.

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

41.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

42.

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

Naisbitt, John

43.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

44.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

45.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

46.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

47.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

48.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

49.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

50.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel