Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Naisbitt, John

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Petworth, John

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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 is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Confucius

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.