Motivational Quotes

Change

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Naisbitt, John

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Murdock, Mike

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

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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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

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Waitley, Denis

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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

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

Andy Warhol

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Tilden, Bill