Motivational Quotes

Change

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

- Macmillan, Harold

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Shaw, P.K.

10.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

13.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

14.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

15.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

16.

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

Harrison Ford

17.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

18.

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

George, David Lloyd

19.

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

Bailey, Pearl

20.

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

21.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

22.

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

23.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

24.

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.

25.

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.

26.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

28.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

32.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

33.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

34.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

35.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

36.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

37.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

38.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

39.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

Menander of Athens

42.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

43.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

44.

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

45.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

46.

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

Naisbitt, John

47.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

49.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel