Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Change

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

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

Buffett, Warren

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

12.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

13.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

14.

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

15.

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

Christina Baldwin

16.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

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

Tilden, Bill

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

24.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

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

Kempis, Thomas

27.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

28.

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

Dean, Jimmy

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

32.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

33.

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

Felltham, Owen

34.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

35.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

36.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

37.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

41.

Constant change is here to stay.

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

44.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

45.

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

Bacon, Francis

46.

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

47.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

48.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

49.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

50.

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