Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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.

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

10.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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

16.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

18.

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

Angelou, Maya

19.

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

Ward, William A.

20.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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

23.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Confucius

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

27.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

28.

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

Petworth, John

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

34.

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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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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

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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

43.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

44.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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

46.

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

Naisbitt, John

47.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

48.

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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les