Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Davis, William B.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mohammed

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Buffett, Warren

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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 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

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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.

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Petworth, John