Motivational Quotes

Change

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

- Kundera, Milan

Best Quotes about Change

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Heraclitus

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Bible

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Porter, Irene

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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