Motivational Quotes

Change

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

- Mcginley, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Constant change is here to stay.

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

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rogers, Will

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Davis, William B.

14.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

16.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

17.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

18.

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

Dewar, Jeff

19.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

20.

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

21.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

22.

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

Klee, Paul

23.

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

Angelou, Maya

24.

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

25.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

26.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

27.

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

28.

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

Paz, Octavio

29.

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

30.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

31.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

32.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

33.

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

34.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

35.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

36.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

37.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

38.

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

Menander of Athens

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

Tilden, Bill

41.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

42.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

43.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

44.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

45.

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

Kempis, Thomas

46.

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

47.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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