Motivational Quotes

Change

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Pope, Alexander

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Buffett, Warren

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

11.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

12.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

14.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

15.

Constant change is here to stay.

16.

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

17.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

21.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

22.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

27.

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

Hooker, Richard

28.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

29.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

30.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

31.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

32.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

33.

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

Watts, Alan W.

34.

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

Rogers, Will

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

38.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Harrison Ford

41.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

42.

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

43.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

44.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy