Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Naisbitt, John

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Klee, Paul

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Andy Warhol

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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.

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd