Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Harrison Ford

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

Eliot, George

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

10.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

11.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

12.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

18.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

19.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

20.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

22.

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

23.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

25.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

26.

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

27.

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?

28.

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

29.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

30.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

31.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

32.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

33.

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

34.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

35.

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

Susan Rice

36.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

37.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

38.

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

Kempis, Thomas

39.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

40.

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

41.

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

Robbins, Anthony

42.

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

Rogers, Will

43.

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

44.

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

45.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

46.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

47.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

50.

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

Churchill, Winston