Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

2.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

3.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

4.

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

5.

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

Shelton, Richard

6.

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

Riley, Pat

7.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

8.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

9.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

10.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

11.

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

A Course In Miracles

12.

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

13.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

14.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

15.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

16.

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

17.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

18.

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

Rogers, Will

19.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

20.

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

Bellin, Gita

21.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

22.

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

23.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

24.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

25.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

28.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

29.

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

30.

Constant change is here to stay.

31.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

33.

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

Menander of Athens

34.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

35.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

36.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

40.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

41.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

42.

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

Andy Warhol

43.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

44.

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

Buffett, Warren

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Dewar, Jeff

47.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

48.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

49.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

50.

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