Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

2.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

3.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

4.

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

Rohn, Jim

5.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

6.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

7.

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

Dante Alighieri

8.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

9.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

10.

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

11.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

12.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

13.

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

Watts, Alan W.

14.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

15.

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

Susan Rice

16.

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

Udall, Mo

17.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

18.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

19.

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

Naisbitt, John

20.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

21.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

22.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

23.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

24.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

25.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

26.

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

Draper, John W.

27.

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

28.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

29.

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.

30.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

31.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

32.

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

Bennett, Arnold

33.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

34.

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

35.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

36.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

37.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

38.

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

39.

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

A Course In Miracles

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

43.

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

Carol Burnett

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Dewar, Jeff

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Depree, Max

49.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von