Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

10.

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

11.

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

12.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

13.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

14.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

15.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

17.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

18.

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

Dean, Jimmy

19.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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.

23.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

24.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

25.

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

26.

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

Jackson, Nelson

27.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

28.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Susan Rice

33.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

34.

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

35.

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

Bellin, Gita

36.

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

Hoffer, Eric

37.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

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

Felltham, Owen

39.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

40.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

41.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

42.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

43.

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

Kempis, Thomas

44.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

45.

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

Shaw, P.K.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

49.

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?

50.

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