Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bennett, Arnold

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Waitley, Denis

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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.

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

Eliot, George

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.