Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Susan Rice

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Bible

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

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

Carol Burnett

10.

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

11.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

12.

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

Burke, Edmund

13.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

14.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

16.

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

A Course In Miracles

17.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

19.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

20.

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

Heraclitus

21.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

22.

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.

23.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

24.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

25.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

26.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

27.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

28.

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

Ward, William A.

29.

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.

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

34.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

36.

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

Dante Alighieri

37.

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

38.

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

Paul, Jean

39.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Paz, Octavio

41.

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

42.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

43.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

44.

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

45.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

46.

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.

47.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

48.

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

49.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

50.

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

Gilcrest, Peter