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

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

Susan Rice

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Shelton, Richard

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dean, Jimmy

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Porter, Irene

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

Naisbitt, John

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Sinetar, Marsha

43.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.