Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Best Quotes about Change

1.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

2.

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

Ruskin, John

3.

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

4.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

5.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

6.

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

Bryant, William C.

7.

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

Einstein, Albert

8.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

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

Porter, Irene

10.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

14.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

16.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

17.

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

Spander, Art

18.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

19.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

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

Bennett, Arnold

21.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

23.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

24.

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

Herford, Oliver

25.

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

26.

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

Walesa, Lech

27.

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

28.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

29.

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

Murdock, Mike

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Robbins, Anthony

33.

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

Butterworth, Eric

34.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

35.

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

Ramsay Clark

36.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

37.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

45.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

46.

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

Bible

47.

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