Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Change

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Susan Rice

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

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

Klee, Paul

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Petworth, John

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

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Hooker, Richard

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Paul, Jean

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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 change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Felltham, Owen

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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.

28.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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.

Sallust

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

Lynn Hall

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General