Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

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

Ward, William A.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Nelson Mandela

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Burke, Edmund

11.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

12.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

13.

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

George, David Lloyd

14.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

15.

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

Depree, Max

16.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

17.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Confucius

19.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

20.

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

21.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

22.

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

23.

Constant change is here to stay.

24.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

25.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

26.

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

27.

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

28.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

29.

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

30.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

31.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

32.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

34.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

35.

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

Susan Rice

36.

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

37.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

38.

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

Bryant, William C.

39.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

40.

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

41.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

42.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

43.

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

44.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

45.

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

Menander of Athens

46.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

47.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

48.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

49.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

50.

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.