Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Almanac, Mary S.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

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

Petworth, John

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

10.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

12.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

13.

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

Klee, Paul

14.

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

George, David Lloyd

15.

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.

16.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

17.

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

18.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

19.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

20.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

21.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Davis, William B.

29.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

30.

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

Real Live Preacher

31.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

32.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

36.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

37.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

38.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

39.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

40.

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

Buffett, Warren

41.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

42.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

43.

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

Robbins, Anthony

44.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

45.

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

Hooker, Richard

46.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

47.

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

Watts, Alan W.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Tracy, Brian