Motivational Quotes

Change

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

1.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

2.

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

3.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

4.

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

Walesa, Lech

5.

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

6.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

7.

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

Brown, Les

8.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

9.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

11.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

14.

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

15.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

16.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

17.

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

18.

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

Naisbitt, John

19.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

20.

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.

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Proust, Marcel

23.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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.

25.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

26.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

27.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

28.

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

Paul, Jean

29.

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

30.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

31.

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

Rogers, Will

32.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

34.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

36.

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

Bellin, Gita

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

41.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

42.

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

43.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

44.

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

Virgil

45.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

46.

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

47.

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

Buffett, Warren

48.

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

Nelson Mandela

49.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

50.

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

Kettering, Charles F.