Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

1.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

2.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

3.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

4.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

5.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

6.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

7.

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

8.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

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

10.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

11.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

12.

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

Felltham, Owen

13.

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

Lee, Bruce

14.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

15.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

16.

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

Murdock, Mike

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

20.

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

Spencer, Herbert

21.

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

22.

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

Sontag, Susan

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

Bellin, Gita

25.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

26.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

27.

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.

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

29.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

31.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

32.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

33.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

34.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

39.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

40.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

41.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

42.

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

Paz, Octavio

43.

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

Shaw, P.K.

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

46.

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

47.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

49.

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

50.

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