Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

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Best Quotes about Change

1.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

2.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

3.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

4.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

5.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

6.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

7.

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

Confucius

8.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

9.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

10.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

11.

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

Lee, Bruce

12.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

13.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

14.

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

15.

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

Christina Baldwin

16.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

17.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

18.

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

19.

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

Pope, Alexander

20.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

21.

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

22.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

23.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

24.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

26.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

27.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Shelton, Richard

31.

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

Proust, Marcel

32.

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

Naisbitt, John

33.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

35.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

36.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

37.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

38.

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.

39.

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

Mohammed

40.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

41.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

42.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

43.

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

44.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

45.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

46.

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

Rohn, Jim

47.

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

Robbins, Anthony

48.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

49.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

50.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha