Motivational Quotes

Change

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Draper, John W.

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

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

Kearney

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

15.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

18.

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?

19.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

Virgil

21.

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

22.

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

Walesa, Lech

23.

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

Bellin, Gita

24.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

25.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

26.

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

Kempis, Thomas

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

32.

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

Watts, Alan W.

33.

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

34.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

37.

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