Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Porter, Irene

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Hoffer, Eric

2.

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.

3.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

4.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

5.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

6.

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

7.

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

Virgil

8.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

9.

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

10.

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

Heraclitus

11.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

12.

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

Murdock, Mike

13.

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

14.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

15.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

16.

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

17.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

18.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

20.

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?

21.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

22.

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

Lynn Hall

23.

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

Mohammed

24.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

25.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

26.

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

27.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

Udall, Mo

30.

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

31.

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

Burke, Edmund

32.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

33.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

34.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

35.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

36.

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

Tracy, Brian

37.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

38.

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

39.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

40.

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

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Bryant, William C.

43.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

44.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

45.

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

Waitley, Denis

46.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

47.

Constant change is here to stay.

48.

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

Watts, Alan W.