Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Udall, Mo

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Susan Rice

10.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

12.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

13.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

14.

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

Herford, Oliver

15.

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

Felltham, Owen

16.

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

17.

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

Menander of Athens

18.

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

Tilden, Bill

19.

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

20.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

21.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

22.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

23.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

24.

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

25.

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?

26.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

27.

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

Bible

28.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

29.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

30.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

31.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

32.

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

33.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

34.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

35.

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

36.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

37.

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

Dewar, Jeff

38.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

39.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

40.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

41.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

42.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

43.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

45.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

46.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

47.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

48.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

49.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

50.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese