Motivational Quotes

Change

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Naisbitt, John

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

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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 pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Eliot, George

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Heraclitus

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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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