Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Petworth, John

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Proust, Marcel

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Riley, Pat

10.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

11.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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.

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

Spander, Art

14.

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

15.

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

Christina Baldwin

16.

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

17.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

21.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

22.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

23.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

24.

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

25.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

27.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

28.

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

Heraclitus

29.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

30.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

31.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

34.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

35.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

36.

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

37.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

39.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

40.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

41.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

42.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

43.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

44.

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

Waitley, Denis

45.

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

46.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

47.

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

Shaw, P.K.

48.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

49.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German