Motivational Quotes

Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Change

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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.

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

10.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

11.

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

12.

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

Klee, Paul

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

16.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

19.

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

20.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

21.

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

22.

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

Dante Alighieri

23.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

24.

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

Spencer, Herbert

25.

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

26.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

27.

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

Herford, Oliver

28.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

29.

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

30.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

31.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

32.

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

33.

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

Draper, John W.

34.

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.

35.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

36.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

39.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

40.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

41.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

42.

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

Lynn Hall

43.

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

Bible

44.

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.

45.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

46.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

47.

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

Tracy, Brian

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von