Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

2.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

3.

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

Virgil

4.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

5.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

6.

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

Mohammed

7.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

9.

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

Draper, John W.

10.

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

11.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

12.

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

Mcgovern, William

13.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

14.

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.

15.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

16.

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

Rogers, Will

17.

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

Bryant, William C.

18.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

19.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

21.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

22.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

23.

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

Buffett, Warren

24.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

25.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

26.

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

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

29.

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

30.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

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

32.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

33.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

34.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

37.

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

Harrison Ford

38.

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.

39.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

40.

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

Ramsay Clark

41.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

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

Waitley, Denis

43.

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

Robbins, Anthony

44.

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

Klee, Paul

45.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

46.

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

Shaw, P.K.

47.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

48.

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

49.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

50.

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

Tracy, Brian