Motivational Quotes

Change

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

2.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

3.

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

4.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

5.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

6.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

7.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

8.

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

Bacon, Francis

9.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Virgil

11.

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

12.

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

Porter, Irene

13.

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

14.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

15.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

16.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

17.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

Kearney

19.

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

20.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

21.

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

Watts, Alan W.

22.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

23.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

24.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

25.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

26.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

27.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

28.

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

29.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

30.

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

31.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

32.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

33.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

34.

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

Draper, John W.

35.

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

Burke, Edmund

36.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

37.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

38.

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.

39.

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

Waitley, Denis

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

43.

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

44.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

45.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

46.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

47.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

48.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

49.

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

Rogers, Will

50.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall