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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Gilcrest, Peter

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Felltham, Owen

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

10.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

11.

Constant change is here to stay.

12.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

13.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

14.

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

15.

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

Walesa, Lech

16.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

17.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

18.

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

19.

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

Bailey, Pearl

20.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

21.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

22.

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

23.

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

Bennett, Arnold

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

27.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

28.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

29.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

34.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Jackson, Jesse

39.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

40.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

Hoffer, Eric

44.

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

45.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

Marcinko, Richard

47.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

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

49.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

50.

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