Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

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

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Paz, Octavio

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Dewar, Jeff

11.

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

Felltham, Owen

12.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

13.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

15.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

16.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

17.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

18.

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

Bryant, William C.

19.

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.

20.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

21.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

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

Naisbitt, John

23.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

24.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Lee, Bruce

26.

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

Porter, Irene

27.

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

Menander of Athens

28.

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

29.

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

Buffett, Warren

30.

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

31.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

32.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Mcgovern, William

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

39.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

40.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

41.

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

42.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

43.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

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.

45.

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

Lynn Hall

46.

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

Christina Baldwin

47.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

48.

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

49.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

50.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon