Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Naisbitt, John

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

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Butterworth, Eric

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Jackson, Nelson

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Shelton, Richard

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Tilden, Bill

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.