Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Susan Rice

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Bible

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mohammed

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

24.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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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.

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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

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

Bryant, William C.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Waitley, Denis

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Things do not change; we change.