Motivational Quotes

Change

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

- Meryl Streep

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Lee, Bruce

2.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

3.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

4.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

6.

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

Bryant, William C.

7.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

8.

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

9.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

10.

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

Shelton, Richard

11.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

12.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

13.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

14.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

15.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

17.

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

Davis, William B.

18.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

19.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

20.

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

21.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

22.

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

23.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

Heraclitus

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

28.

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.

29.

Constant change is here to stay.

30.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

31.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

33.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

34.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Dewar, Jeff

40.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

41.

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

42.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

43.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

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

Riley, Pat

45.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

46.

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