Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Herford, Oliver

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.

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

Naisbitt, John

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bible

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Heraclitus

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

Petworth, John

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Carol Burnett

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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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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.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas