Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kearney

Best Quotes about Change

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

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Hooker, Richard

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Petworth, John

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Buffett, Warren

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Confucius

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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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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.

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.