Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Porter, Irene

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Paul, Jean

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.