Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

2.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

3.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

4.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

5.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

6.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

7.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

8.

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

9.

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

Naisbitt, John

10.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

13.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

Paz, Octavio

15.

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

Proust, Marcel

16.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

17.

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

18.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

19.

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

Confucius

20.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

21.

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.

22.

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

Murdock, Mike

23.

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

Andy Warhol

24.

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

Bryant, William C.

25.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

26.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Sontag, Susan

29.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

30.

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

Shaw, P.K.

31.

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

32.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

33.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

34.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

36.

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

Bellin, Gita

37.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

38.

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

Spander, Art

39.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

40.

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

41.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

42.

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

Shelton, Richard

43.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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.

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

46.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

47.

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

Watts, Alan W.

48.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson