Motivational Quotes

Change

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

3.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

4.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

5.

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.

6.

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

Bellin, Gita

7.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

8.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

10.

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

Menander of Athens

11.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

12.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

13.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

14.

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.

15.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

16.

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

Christina Baldwin

17.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

18.

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

Tracy, Brian

19.

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

Bailey, Pearl

20.

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.

21.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

22.

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

Davis, William B.

23.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

24.

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

Waitley, Denis

25.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

26.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

27.

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

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 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.

30.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

31.

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

Burke, Edmund

32.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

33.

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

Herford, Oliver

34.

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

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.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

37.

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

38.

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

Gerhart, Susan

39.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

40.

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

41.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

42.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

43.

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

44.

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