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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

Bible

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

10.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

11.

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

12.

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

Confucius

13.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Depree, Max

17.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

18.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

19.

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

20.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

21.

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

22.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

23.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

24.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

25.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

26.

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

George, David Lloyd

27.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

28.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

29.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

30.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

31.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

32.

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

33.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

34.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

35.

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.

36.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

37.

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

38.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

39.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

40.

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

41.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

42.

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

Riley, Pat

43.

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

Bryant, William C.

44.

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

Mohammed

45.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

46.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

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

Spander, Art