Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

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

Dante Alighieri

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Shelton, Richard

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

10.

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

11.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

12.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

13.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

14.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

15.

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

16.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

17.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

18.

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

19.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

20.

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.

21.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

22.

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

Bailey, Pearl

23.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

24.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

26.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

27.

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

Lee, Bruce

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Watts, Alan W.

31.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

32.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

33.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

34.

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

35.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

36.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

37.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

42.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

43.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

44.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

45.

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

Lynn Hall

46.

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

Spencer, Herbert

47.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

48.

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

Menander of Athens

49.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

50.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.