Motivational Quotes

Change

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Robbins, Anthony

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will 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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

10.

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.

11.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

13.

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

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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.

16.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

17.

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

18.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

19.

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

20.

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

Bacon, Francis

21.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

22.

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

Paz, Octavio

23.

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

24.

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?

25.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

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

Christina Baldwin

29.

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

30.

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

Depree, Max

31.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

35.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

36.

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

Eliot, George

37.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

38.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

39.

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

40.

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

Proust, Marcel

41.

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

42.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

43.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

44.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

46.

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

Real Live Preacher

47.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

48.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.