Motivational Quotes

Change

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

- Alinsky, Saul

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Naisbitt, John

2.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

3.

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

Davis, William B.

4.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

5.

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

6.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

7.

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

Hooker, Richard

8.

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

9.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

10.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

11.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

14.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

15.

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

Watts, Alan W.

16.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

17.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Felltham, Owen

20.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

21.

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

22.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

23.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

24.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

25.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

26.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

27.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

28.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

30.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

31.

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

Riley, Pat

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

35.

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

Tilden, Bill

36.

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

Paz, Octavio

37.

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

Porter, Irene

38.

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

Murdock, Mike

39.

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

40.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

41.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

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

43.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

44.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

45.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

46.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

47.

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

Draper, John W.

48.

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

Depree, Max

49.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

50.

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?