Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Petworth, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

Porter, Irene

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

Nelson Mandela

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

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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?

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Tilden, Bill

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

12.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

13.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

14.

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

Susan Rice

15.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

16.

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

17.

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

Draper, John W.

18.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

19.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

20.

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

Davis, William B.

21.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

22.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

23.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

24.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

25.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

27.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

28.

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

Petworth, John

29.

Constant change is here to stay.

30.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

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

Bryant, William C.

32.

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

Heraclitus

33.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

34.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

35.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

36.

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.

37.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

38.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

39.

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

Rogers, Will

40.

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

41.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

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

Felltham, Owen

43.

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

Gerhart, Susan

44.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

45.

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

Ruskin, John

46.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

47.

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

48.

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

George, David Lloyd

49.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

50.

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