Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

13.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

14.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

15.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

16.

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

Waitley, Denis

17.

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

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

Proust, Marcel

20.

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

21.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

22.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

23.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

24.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

25.

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

26.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

27.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

28.

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

29.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

30.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

31.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

32.

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

Nelson Mandela

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

36.

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

Socrates

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

40.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

41.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

42.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

44.

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

45.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

46.

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

Udall, Mo

47.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

48.

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

49.

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

Depree, Max

50.

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

Draper, John W.