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 more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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.

Constant change is here to stay.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Einstein, Albert

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

10.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

11.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

12.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

13.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

14.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

15.

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

Waitley, Denis

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Felltham, Owen

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Spander, Art

21.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

24.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

25.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

26.

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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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

28.

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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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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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 things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

34.

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

Susan Rice

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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

39.

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.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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

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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

49.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von