Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Change

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lynn Hall

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Paul, Jean

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Naisbitt, John

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

19.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Waitley, Denis

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Tilden, Bill

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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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

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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.