Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Tracy, Brian

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

10.

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

Nelson Mandela

11.

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

12.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

13.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

14.

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

Paul, Jean

15.

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

Udall, Mo

16.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

17.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

18.

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

Tilden, Bill

19.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

20.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

24.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

25.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

27.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

28.

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

29.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

Burke, Edmund

32.

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

Harrison Ford

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

Ward, William A.

36.

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

Draper, John W.

37.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

38.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

39.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

40.

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

Klee, Paul

41.

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

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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.

44.

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

Mohammed

45.

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

Kempis, Thomas

46.

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.

47.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

48.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

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

Heraclitus

50.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio