Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Change

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

Herford, Oliver

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.

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

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

Carol Burnett

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Paul, Jean

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Susan Rice

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Petworth, John

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

Davis, William B.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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

Mohammed

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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.