Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bryson, Lyman L.

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Susan Rice

2.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

3.

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

4.

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

Hooker, Richard

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Petworth, John

9.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

10.

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

11.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

12.

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

Ramsay Clark

13.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

14.

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

Kearney

15.

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

Bible

16.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

17.

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

Waitley, Denis

18.

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

George, David Lloyd

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

21.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

22.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

23.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

24.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

25.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

26.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

27.

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

Lynn Hall

28.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

29.

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.

30.

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.

31.

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.

32.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

33.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

34.

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

Dewar, Jeff

35.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

36.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

37.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Porter, Irene

41.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

43.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

44.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

45.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

46.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

47.

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

48.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

49.

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

50.

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

Tilden, Bill