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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Churchill, Winston

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

16.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

17.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

18.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

19.

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

20.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

22.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

23.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

24.

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

Bailey, Pearl

25.

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

Dante Alighieri

26.

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

Andy Warhol

27.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

28.

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

Christina Baldwin

29.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

30.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

31.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

32.

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

33.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

34.

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

Watts, Alan W.

35.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

36.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

37.

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

Tracy, Brian

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

41.

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

42.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

43.

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

Pope, Alexander

44.

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

Riley, Pat