Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Change

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

Virgil

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Kearney

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Proust, Marcel

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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.

21.

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Menander of Athens

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Heraclitus

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

Davis, William B.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Gerhart, Susan

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Felltham, Owen

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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.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Andy Warhol

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles