Motivational Quotes

Change

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Change

1.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

2.

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

Spander, Art

3.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

4.

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

5.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

6.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

7.

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

Porter, Irene

8.

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.

9.

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?

10.

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

11.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

13.

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

Gerhart, Susan

14.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

15.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

16.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

17.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

18.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

20.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

21.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

24.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

25.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

26.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

Constant change is here to stay.

30.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

31.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

32.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

33.

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

Naisbitt, John

34.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

35.

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

Walesa, Lech

36.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

38.

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

39.

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

Bellin, Gita

40.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

41.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

42.

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

Burke, Edmund

43.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

44.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Paz, Octavio

49.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

50.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara