Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Mohammed

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

10.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

11.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

12.

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

13.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

15.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

16.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

17.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

19.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

20.

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

21.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

22.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

23.

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

24.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

25.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

26.

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

Draper, John W.

27.

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

28.

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

Menander of Athens

29.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

30.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

31.

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

Carol Burnett

32.

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

Bailey, Pearl

33.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

35.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

36.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

37.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

38.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

39.

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

Spander, Art

40.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

41.

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

42.

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

Riley, Pat

43.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

44.

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

Udall, Mo

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

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

Naisbitt, John

50.

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.