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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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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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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

19.

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.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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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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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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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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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.

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Waitley, Denis

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Porter, Irene

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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

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gerhart, Susan

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John