Motivational Quotes

Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Change

1.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

2.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

3.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

4.

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

Ramsay Clark

5.

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

Proust, Marcel

6.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

7.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

8.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

9.

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

Gerhart, Susan

10.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

11.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

12.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

13.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

14.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

15.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

16.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

17.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

19.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

20.

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

Bellin, Gita

21.

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

Naisbitt, John

22.

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

23.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

24.

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

Dewar, Jeff

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

30.

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

Robbins, Anthony

31.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

34.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

35.

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

36.

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

Shaw, P.K.

37.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

38.

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

39.

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

George, David Lloyd

40.

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

Herford, Oliver

41.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

42.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

43.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

44.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

45.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

46.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

47.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

48.

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

49.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

50.

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?