Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bible

10.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

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.

12.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

13.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Angelou, Maya

15.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

17.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

18.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

19.

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

Porter, Irene

20.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

21.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

22.

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

Kempis, Thomas

23.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

24.

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.

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Waitley, Denis

30.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

31.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

32.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mohammed

34.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

35.

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

36.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

39.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

40.

Constant change is here to stay.

41.

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.

42.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Ramsay Clark

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo