Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kearney

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

10.

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

Buffett, Warren

11.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

12.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

14.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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

16.

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

17.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

18.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

20.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

21.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

22.

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

Shelton, Richard

23.

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

Klee, Paul

24.

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

25.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

26.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

27.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

30.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

32.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Kettering, Charles F.

34.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

36.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

37.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

38.

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

39.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

40.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

41.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

44.

Constant change is here to stay.

45.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

46.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

47.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

48.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita