Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

11.

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

Paul, Jean

12.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

13.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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.

15.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

18.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

19.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

20.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

21.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

22.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

23.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

24.

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

25.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

26.

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

27.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

28.

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

29.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

30.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

31.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

32.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

33.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

34.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

35.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

36.

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

Draper, John W.

37.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

38.

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

39.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

40.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

41.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Davis, William B.

43.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

44.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

45.

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

Petworth, John

46.

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

47.

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

Mcgovern, William

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Walesa, Lech

50.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac