Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Walesa, Lech

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Riley, Pat

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

Udall, Mo

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

Lee, Bruce

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

10.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

11.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

12.

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

Felltham, Owen

13.

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

Confucius

14.

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

Mohammed

15.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

16.

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

Heraclitus

17.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

18.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

19.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

21.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

Butterworth, Eric

23.

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

Depree, Max

24.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

26.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

27.

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

28.

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

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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

30.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

31.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

32.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

33.

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

Tilden, Bill

34.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

35.

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

36.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

40.

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

41.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

42.

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

43.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

44.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

Klee, Paul

46.

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

47.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

48.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

49.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

50.

Everything changes but change.