Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

George, David Lloyd

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.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Naisbitt, John

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Gerhart, Susan

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Susan Rice

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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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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Felltham, Owen

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Shelton, Richard

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Sontag, Susan

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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 not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Porter, Irene

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

Menander of Athens