Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lynn Hall

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

2.

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

Socrates

3.

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

4.

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

Udall, Mo

5.

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

6.

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

Robbins, Anthony

7.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

8.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

9.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

10.

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

Harrison Ford

11.

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

A Course In Miracles

12.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

13.

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

Buffett, Warren

14.

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

15.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

16.

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

17.

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

Waitley, Denis

18.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

19.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

21.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

22.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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.

25.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

26.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

27.

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

Dewar, Jeff

28.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

32.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

33.

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

Porter, Irene

34.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

36.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

37.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

38.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

39.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

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

41.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

42.

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

Heraclitus

43.

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

44.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

45.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

46.

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

Gerhart, Susan

47.

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

Burke, Edmund

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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