Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Draper, John W.

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Bailey, Pearl

2.

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

3.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

4.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

5.

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.

6.

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

Andy Warhol

7.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

8.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

9.

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

10.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

11.

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

12.

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

Ward, William A.

13.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

14.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

16.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

Angelou, Maya

19.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

20.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

21.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

22.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

23.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

26.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

27.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

28.

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

Butterworth, Eric

29.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

30.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

31.

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

32.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

33.

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

Eliot, George

34.

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

Bible

35.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

36.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

37.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

38.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

39.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

41.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

43.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

44.

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

Depree, Max

45.

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

Jackson, Nelson

46.

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

Rogers, Will

47.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

48.

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.

49.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

50.

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

Bryant, William C.