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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Susan Rice

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

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Naisbitt, John

10.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

11.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

12.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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.

20.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

27.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

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

Depree, Max

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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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

45.

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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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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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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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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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.