Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

2.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

3.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

4.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

5.

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

6.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

7.

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

Heraclitus

8.

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

9.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

10.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

11.

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

Andy Warhol

12.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

14.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

15.

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

Riley, Pat

16.

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

17.

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

Christina Baldwin

18.

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.

19.

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

Paz, Octavio

20.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

21.

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

22.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

23.

Constant change is here to stay.

24.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

25.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

26.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

27.

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

A Course In Miracles

28.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

29.

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

Mohammed

30.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

31.

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

Rohn, Jim

32.

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

Walesa, Lech

33.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

35.

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

36.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

37.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

38.

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

39.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

Tilden, Bill

41.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

42.

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

Brown, Les

43.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

44.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

45.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

49.

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

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.