Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Dewar, Jeff

2.

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

Pope, Alexander

3.

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

Naisbitt, John

4.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

5.

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.

6.

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.

7.

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

Churchill, Winston

8.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

9.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

10.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

15.

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

16.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

17.

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

Bryant, William C.

18.

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

19.

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

Davis, William B.

20.

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

Herford, Oliver

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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

23.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

24.

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

Waitley, Denis

25.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

26.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

27.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

28.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

29.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

31.

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

32.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

33.

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

Robbins, Anthony

34.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

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

Waitley, Denis

38.

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