Motivational Quotes

Change

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

2.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

3.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

4.

Constant change is here to stay.

5.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

6.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

7.

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

Naisbitt, John

8.

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

9.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

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.

12.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

13.

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

Depree, Max

14.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

15.

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

Heraclitus

16.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

17.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

Kempis, Thomas

19.

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

Paz, Octavio

20.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

26.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

28.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

29.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

30.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

31.

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

Riley, Pat

32.

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

Andy Warhol

33.

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

34.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

35.

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

36.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

37.

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

Bailey, Pearl

38.

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

Burke, Edmund

39.

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.

40.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

41.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

42.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

44.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

45.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

46.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

47.

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

48.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

49.

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.

50.

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