Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Davis, William B.

2.

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

Menander of Athens

3.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

4.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

5.

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

6.

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

Klee, Paul

7.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

8.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

9.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

10.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

11.

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

12.

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

Hooker, Richard

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.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

15.

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

Mcgovern, William

16.

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

Porter, Irene

17.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

18.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

19.

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

Spander, Art

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

22.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

23.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

24.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

Confucius

26.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

27.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Herford, Oliver

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

Paz, Octavio

36.

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

Bellin, Gita

37.

Constant change is here to stay.

38.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

39.

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

40.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

41.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

42.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

45.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

46.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

47.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

48.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

49.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

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

Jackson, Nelson