Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Susan Rice

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Spander, Art

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Ruskin, John

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Tracy, Brian

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Kearney

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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