Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Harrison Ford

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

Andy Warhol

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Christina Baldwin

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Rogers, Will

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ward, William A.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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

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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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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.

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Sinetar, Marsha