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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

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

Klee, Paul

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

11.

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

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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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

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Angelou, Maya

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Will

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius