Motivational Quotes

Change

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Proust, Marcel

2.

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

Andy Warhol

3.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

6.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

7.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

8.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

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

Christina Baldwin

13.

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.

14.

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

Ward, William A.

15.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

16.

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

Nelson Mandela

17.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

18.

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

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

21.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

22.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Real Live Preacher

24.

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

25.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

28.

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

Udall, Mo

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

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

Spander, Art

31.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

32.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

33.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

34.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

35.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

36.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

37.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

38.

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

39.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

40.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

41.

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

42.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

45.

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