Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

Nelson Mandela

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

A Course In Miracles

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

10.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

11.

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?

12.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

13.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

14.

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

Porter, Irene

15.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

16.

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

17.

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

Herford, Oliver

18.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

19.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

20.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

21.

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

22.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

23.

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

24.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

25.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

26.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

28.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

29.

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

Jackson, Nelson

30.

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

Heraclitus

31.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

32.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

33.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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.

37.

Constant change is here to stay.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Ruskin, John

42.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

43.

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

Shaw, P.K.

44.

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

45.

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

Felltham, Owen

46.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

47.

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

48.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

49.

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

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

Eliot, George