Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Change

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Murdock, Mike

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

10.

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

11.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

12.

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

13.

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

Angelou, Maya

14.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

15.

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

Carol Burnett

16.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

17.

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

Waitley, Denis

18.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

19.

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.

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

22.

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

23.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

24.

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

Butterworth, Eric

25.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

26.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

27.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

28.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

Naisbitt, John

30.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

31.

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.

32.

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

Paul, Jean

33.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

34.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

35.

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

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

38.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

40.

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

41.

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

Udall, Mo

42.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

43.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

44.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.