Motivational Quotes

Change

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Buffett, Warren

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Klee, Paul

11.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

25.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

30.

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

Murdock, Mike

31.

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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

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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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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.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Naisbitt, John