Motivational Quotes

Change

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Real Live Preacher

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

A Course In Miracles

10.

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

11.

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

Menander of Athens

12.

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?

13.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

14.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

15.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

16.

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

17.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

18.

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

19.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

20.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

21.

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

Rogers, Will

22.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

23.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

24.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

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

Susan Rice

26.

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

Felltham, Owen

27.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

28.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

29.

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

Shelton, Richard

30.

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.

31.

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

Nelson Mandela

32.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

33.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

34.

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

35.

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

36.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

37.

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

Confucius

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

Bellin, Gita

41.

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

42.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

43.

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

Robbins, Anthony

44.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

45.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

46.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

49.

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

50.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.