Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Change

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

Draper, John W.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

10.

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

Paz, Octavio

11.

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

Dewar, Jeff

12.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

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

Spencer, Herbert

14.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

15.

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

16.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

17.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

George, David Lloyd

21.

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

Virgil

22.

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

Shaw, P.K.

23.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

24.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

28.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

29.

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

30.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

31.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

33.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

34.

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

Burke, Edmund

35.

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

36.

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

Tracy, Brian

37.

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

Watts, Alan W.

38.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

39.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

40.

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

41.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

42.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

43.

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

44.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

45.

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

Dean, Jimmy

46.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

48.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

49.

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

50.

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