Motivational Quotes

Change

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Klee, Paul

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

Naisbitt, John

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

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Angelou, Maya

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Susan Rice

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Confucius

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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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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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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.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Andy Warhol

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

Paul, Jean

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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.