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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Heraclitus

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Christina Baldwin

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Confucius

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Bible

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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