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.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

2.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

3.

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

Brown, Les

4.

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

Felltham, Owen

5.

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.

6.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

7.

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

Ruskin, John

8.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

9.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

10.

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

Rohn, Jim

11.

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

George, David Lloyd

12.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

13.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

14.

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

Andy Warhol

15.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

16.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

17.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

18.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

19.

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.

20.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

24.

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

Shaw, P.K.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Real Live Preacher

28.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

29.

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

30.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

31.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

36.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

37.

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

38.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Naisbitt, John

41.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

42.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

43.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

44.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

47.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

48.

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

49.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

50.

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

Hooker, Richard