Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Change

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Rogers, Will

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Susan Rice

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Shelton, Richard

10.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

11.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

12.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

13.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

14.

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

Mohammed

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

17.

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

Gerhart, Susan

18.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

19.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

20.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

21.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Robbins, Anthony

25.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

26.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

27.

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

Bailey, Pearl

28.

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

Draper, John W.

29.

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

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Jackson, Nelson

32.

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

33.

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

Andy Warhol

34.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

35.

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

36.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

37.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

42.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

43.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

44.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

45.

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

46.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

47.

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

48.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

49.

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

Heraclitus

50.

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