Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Felltham, Owen

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Confucius

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Bible

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Mohammed

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

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Andy Warhol

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

Klee, Paul

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Harrison Ford

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.