Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Walesa, Lech

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kearney

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

10.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

11.

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

Bennett, Arnold

12.

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

Burke, Edmund

13.

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

14.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Depree, Max

18.

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

Petworth, John

19.

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?

20.

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

21.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

22.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

23.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

24.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

25.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

26.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

29.

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

Jackson, Nelson

30.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

32.

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

Naisbitt, John

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

37.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

38.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

39.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

40.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

41.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

42.

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

43.

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

Andy Warhol

44.

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

Klee, Paul

45.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

46.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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