Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Change

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Einstein, Albert

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Udall, Mo

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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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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Heraclitus

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Klee, Paul

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

Petworth, John

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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

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Buffett, Warren