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

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

10.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

11.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

12.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

13.

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

Waitley, Denis

14.

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

Dean, Jimmy

15.

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.

16.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

17.

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

Tilden, Bill

18.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

19.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Depree, Max

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Waitley, Denis

25.

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

Bible

26.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

28.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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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

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

43.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.