Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

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

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.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Carol Burnett

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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Klee, Paul

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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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.

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Proust, Marcel

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter