Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lynn Hall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Kearney

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

11.

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

12.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

13.

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

Petworth, John

14.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

15.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

16.

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.

17.

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

Herford, Oliver

18.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

19.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

20.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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.

22.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

23.

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

Mohammed

24.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

25.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Nelson Mandela

31.

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

Draper, John W.

32.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

33.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

34.

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?

35.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

36.

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

37.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

38.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

39.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

40.

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

Heraclitus

41.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

42.

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

43.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

44.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

45.

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

Dean, Jimmy

46.

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

Bible

47.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

48.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

49.

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

Mcgovern, William

50.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas