Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bastos, Augusto Roa

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bellin, Gita

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

12.

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

Burke, Edmund

13.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

14.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

15.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

16.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

17.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

18.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

19.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Hooker, Richard

21.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

22.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

23.

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

Felltham, Owen

24.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Confucius

28.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

31.

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

Paz, Octavio

32.

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

Waitley, Denis

33.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

35.

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

Paul, Jean

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Kearney

39.

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?

40.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.