Motivational Quotes

Change

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Paul, Jean

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Burke, Edmund

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Felltham, Owen

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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.

36.

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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Heraclitus