Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Bellin, Gita

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Spander, Art

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Depree, Max

10.

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

11.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

12.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

13.

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

Hoffer, Eric

14.

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

15.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

16.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

17.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

18.

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

19.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

20.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

21.

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

22.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

23.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

24.

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

25.

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

26.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

29.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

30.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

31.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

33.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

Dante Alighieri

35.

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

Angelou, Maya

36.

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

Herford, Oliver

37.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

38.

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

39.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

40.

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

Mcgovern, William

41.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

42.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

43.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

44.

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

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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

46.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

47.

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

Klee, Paul

48.

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

Carol Burnett

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