Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Burke, Edmund

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

10.

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

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

13.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

15.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

16.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

17.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

18.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

19.

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

20.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

21.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

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

23.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

24.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

25.

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

Bellin, Gita

26.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

28.

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

Hoffer, Eric

29.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

30.

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

Real Live Preacher

31.

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

32.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

33.

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

34.

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

Riley, Pat

35.

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

Paul, Jean

36.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

37.

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

38.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

39.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Ruskin, John

43.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

44.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

45.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Susan Rice

49.

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

Dante Alighieri

50.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.