Motivational Quotes

Change

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

- Maslow, Abraham H.

Best Quotes about Change

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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?

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

Petworth, John

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

Schoeder, Caroline

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Harrison Ford

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

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

10.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

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

Jackson, Nelson

14.

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

Christina Baldwin

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

Bellin, Gita

20.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

21.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

22.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

23.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

24.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

25.

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

Jackson, Jesse

26.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

27.

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

28.

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

A Course In Miracles

29.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

33.

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

Carol Burnett

34.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

35.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

36.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

37.

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

38.

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

Porter, Irene

39.

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

40.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

41.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

43.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

44.

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

Felltham, Owen

45.

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

Burke, Edmund

46.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

49.

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

Murdock, Mike

50.

Everything changes but change.