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

1.

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

Rohn, Jim

2.

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

3.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

4.

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

Waitley, Denis

5.

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

Herford, Oliver

6.

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.

7.

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

Davis, William B.

8.

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

9.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

10.

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

11.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

13.

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

14.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

16.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

18.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

23.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

24.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

25.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

26.

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

Real Live Preacher

27.

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

Depree, Max

28.

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

Heraclitus

29.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

32.

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

33.

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

Menander of Athens

34.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

35.

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

Bellin, Gita

36.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

38.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

41.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

42.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

43.

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

44.

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

Felltham, Owen

45.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

46.

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

Christina Baldwin

47.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

48.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

49.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

50.

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