Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Drucker, Peter F.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Eliot, George

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

Gilcrest, Peter

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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

Real Live Preacher

10.

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

Davis, William B.

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

12.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

13.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

14.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

15.

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

Dante Alighieri

16.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

21.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

22.

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

23.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

24.

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?

25.

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

26.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

27.

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.

28.

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

George, David Lloyd

29.

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.

30.

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

Klee, Paul

31.

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.

32.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

33.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

34.

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

Felltham, Owen

35.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

36.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

38.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

39.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

41.

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