Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

1.

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

Klee, Paul

2.

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

Kempis, Thomas

3.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

4.

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

Ruskin, John

5.

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

Harrison Ford

6.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

7.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

8.

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

Gerhart, Susan

9.

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

10.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

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

Hooker, Richard

12.

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

Paz, Octavio

13.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Burke, Edmund

18.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

19.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

20.

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.

21.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

22.

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

Tracy, Brian

23.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

24.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

25.

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

26.

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

Pope, Alexander

27.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

28.

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

29.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

31.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

32.

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

Spander, Art

33.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

34.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

35.

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

Heraclitus

36.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

38.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

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

Bible

40.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

41.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

Naisbitt, John

43.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

44.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

45.

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

Butterworth, Eric

46.

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

Shaw, P.K.

47.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

48.

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

49.

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

Virgil

50.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice