Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

2.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

3.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

4.

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

Socrates

5.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

6.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

7.

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

8.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

9.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

11.

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

12.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

13.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

14.

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

Buffett, Warren

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

Walesa, Lech

17.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

18.

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

Tracy, Brian

19.

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

Felltham, Owen

20.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

21.

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

22.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

28.

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

29.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

30.

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

Waitley, Denis

31.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

32.

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

Heraclitus

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

37.

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

A Course In Miracles

38.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Burke, Edmund

41.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

42.

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

43.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

44.

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

45.

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

George, David Lloyd

46.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell