Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Virgil

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Tilden, Bill

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Waitley, Denis

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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.

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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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren