Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Dewar, Jeff

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

10.

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

A Course In Miracles

11.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

12.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

16.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

17.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

18.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

Menander of Athens

20.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

21.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

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

Bennett, Arnold

23.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

24.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

25.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

26.

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

Butterworth, Eric

27.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

Carol Burnett

30.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

31.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

32.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

33.

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

34.

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

Spander, Art

35.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

36.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

37.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

38.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

40.

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

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

43.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

45.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

46.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

47.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

48.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo