Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

- Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Udall, Mo

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

Real Live Preacher

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Andy Warhol

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

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

11.

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

12.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

14.

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

15.

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

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

18.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

19.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

20.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

21.

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

Naisbitt, John

22.

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

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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.

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

Dean, Jimmy

25.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

26.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

27.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

28.

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

A Course In Miracles

29.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

30.

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

Porter, Irene

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Christina Baldwin

34.

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

Shaw, P.K.

35.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

36.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

37.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

38.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

39.

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

Buffett, Warren

40.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

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

Lee, Bruce

43.

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

Riley, Pat

44.

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

Susan Rice

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