Motivational Quotes

Change

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

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

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Waitley, Denis

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

10.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

13.

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

Ramsay Clark

14.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

15.

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

16.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

18.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

23.

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

24.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

25.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

26.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

27.

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

28.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

29.

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

Virgil

30.

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

Bellin, Gita

31.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

32.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

33.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

34.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

38.

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.

39.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

40.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

41.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

42.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

43.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

46.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

48.

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

Paz, Octavio

49.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

50.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German