Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Change

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Klee, Paul

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

George, David Lloyd

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Kearney

14.

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

15.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

16.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

20.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

21.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

22.

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

Riley, Pat

23.

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

24.

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

Depree, Max

25.

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

26.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

27.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

29.

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

Draper, John W.

30.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

31.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

32.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

36.

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

Menander of Athens

37.

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

Felltham, Owen

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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.

40.

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

Waitley, Denis

41.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

42.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

43.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe