Motivational Quotes

Change

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

10.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

11.

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

12.

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

Spander, Art

13.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

14.

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

Naisbitt, John

15.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

16.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

17.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

18.

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

Riley, Pat

19.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

20.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

21.

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

22.

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

Christina Baldwin

23.

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

Paz, Octavio

24.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

Nelson Mandela

28.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

29.

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

30.

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

Sontag, Susan

31.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

32.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

33.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

34.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

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

Petworth, John

37.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

38.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

39.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

40.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

41.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

43.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

44.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

46.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

47.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

48.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

49.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

50.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.