Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

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

Felltham, Owen

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

10.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

11.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

13.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

14.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

15.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

16.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

17.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

18.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

19.

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

Buffett, Warren

20.

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.

21.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

22.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

23.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

24.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

25.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

26.

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

27.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

28.

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

Paz, Octavio

29.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

30.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

31.

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

32.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

33.

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.

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.

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

Spander, Art

36.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

37.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

38.

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.

39.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

40.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

44.

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

45.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

46.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

47.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

48.

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.

49.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

50.

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