Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

2.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

3.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

7.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

8.

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

Bacon, Francis

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

13.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

14.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

15.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

16.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

17.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

18.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

19.

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

Bellin, Gita

20.

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

Murdock, Mike

21.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

22.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

23.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

24.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

25.

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

Shelton, Richard

26.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

29.

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

Proust, Marcel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

34.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

35.

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

Dante Alighieri

36.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

37.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

38.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

39.

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

Burke, Edmund

40.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

41.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

42.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

43.

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

Naisbitt, John

44.

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

45.

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

Lee, Bruce

46.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

47.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

48.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

49.

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

50.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe