Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change; we change.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Change

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Watts, Alan W.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Proust, Marcel

10.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

11.

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

Sontag, Susan

12.

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

Draper, John W.

13.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

14.

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?

15.

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

16.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

17.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

18.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

19.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

22.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

23.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

24.

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

25.

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

Bacon, Francis

26.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

27.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

28.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

29.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

30.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

31.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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

Mohammed

33.

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

34.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

35.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

36.

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

Naisbitt, John

37.

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

38.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

39.

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

Waitley, Denis

40.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

42.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

45.

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

Gerhart, Susan

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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.

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

Walesa, Lech

50.

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

Sinetar, Marsha