Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Riley, Pat

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Kearney

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

13.

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

Bellin, Gita

14.

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

15.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

16.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

17.

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

Shaw, P.K.

18.

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

19.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

20.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

21.

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

22.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

23.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

24.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

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

26.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

30.

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

31.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

32.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

33.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

34.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

35.

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

Heraclitus

36.

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

37.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

38.

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.

39.

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

Brown, Les

40.

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

Christina Baldwin

41.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

43.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

44.

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

45.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

46.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

47.

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

48.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

49.

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

50.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von