Motivational Quotes

Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Gilcrest, Peter

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Paz, Octavio

13.

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

Walesa, Lech

14.

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

Proust, Marcel

15.

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

A Course In Miracles

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Klee, Paul

19.

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

20.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

21.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

22.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

23.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

24.

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

25.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

28.

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

Tracy, Brian

29.

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

30.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

31.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

32.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

33.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

34.

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

35.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

36.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

37.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

38.

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

Draper, John W.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

40.

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

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Jackson, Jesse

42.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

46.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

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

Eliot, George

49.

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

50.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold