Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about 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

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

Andy Warhol

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Butterworth, Eric

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Udall, Mo

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo