Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Pickens, T. Boone

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

10.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

12.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

13.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

14.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

15.

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.

16.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

17.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

19.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

20.

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

Susan Rice

21.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

22.

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

23.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Bellin, Gita

25.

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

Mcgovern, William

26.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

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

Dewar, Jeff

28.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

29.

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

30.

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

Porter, Irene

31.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

Harrison Ford

33.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

34.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

35.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

36.

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

Kempis, Thomas

37.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

38.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

Andy Warhol

40.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Draper, John W.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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