Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

- D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

2.

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

Carol Burnett

3.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

4.

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

Brown, Les

5.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

7.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

8.

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

Spander, Art

9.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

10.

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

11.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

12.

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

Dean, Jimmy

13.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

14.

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

Hoffer, Eric

15.

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

16.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

17.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

18.

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

Paz, Octavio

19.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

20.

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

Burke, Edmund

21.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

22.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

23.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

24.

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

25.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

26.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

27.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

28.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

29.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

30.

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

Watts, Alan W.

31.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

32.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

33.

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

Paul, Jean

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

Ramsay Clark

36.

Constant change is here to stay.

37.

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

Rogers, Will

38.

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

Waitley, Denis

39.

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

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

44.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

45.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

46.

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.

47.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

48.

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

Heraclitus

49.

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.

50.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De