Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Sinetar, Marsha

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

10.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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

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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Klee, Paul

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

Andy Warhol

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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.