Motivational Quotes

Change

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

2.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

3.

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

Proust, Marcel

4.

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

Rohn, Jim

5.

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

6.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

7.

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

Dean, Jimmy

8.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

9.

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.

10.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

11.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

12.

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

Hooker, Richard

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Spander, Art

15.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

16.

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

Draper, John W.

17.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

18.

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

Bible

19.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

20.

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

George, David Lloyd

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.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

23.

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?

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

26.

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

Mcgovern, William

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.

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

Paul, Jean

29.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

30.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

31.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

32.

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.

33.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

34.

Constant change is here to stay.

35.

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

Bryant, William C.

36.

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

37.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

38.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

39.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

40.

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

Butterworth, Eric

41.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

42.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

43.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

44.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

45.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

46.

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

Hoffer, Eric

47.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

48.

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

49.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

50.

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

Ruskin, John