Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Paz, Octavio

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Bible

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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

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

Shelton, Richard

10.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

12.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

13.

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

14.

Constant change is here to stay.

15.

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

16.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

17.

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

Heraclitus

18.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

19.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

20.

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

George, David Lloyd

21.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

22.

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

Riley, Pat

23.

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

Rogers, Will

24.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

26.

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

27.

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

Davis, William B.

28.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

29.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

37.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

38.

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

39.

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

Tracy, Brian

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

42.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

43.

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

Robbins, Anthony

44.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

45.

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

Jackson, Nelson

46.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

50.

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

Waitley, Denis