Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

2.

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

Davis, William B.

3.

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

Sontag, Susan

4.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

5.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

6.

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

Shaw, P.K.

7.

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

8.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

9.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

10.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

11.

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

Spencer, Herbert

12.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

13.

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

Real Live Preacher

14.

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

Dewar, Jeff

15.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

16.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

18.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

19.

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.

20.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

24.

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

Tilden, Bill

25.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

26.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

27.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

28.

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

Herford, Oliver

29.

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

Bacon, Francis

30.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

31.

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.

32.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

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

34.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

George, David Lloyd

36.

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

37.

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

38.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

39.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

40.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

41.

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