Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Change

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.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Spander, Art

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Heraclitus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Naisbitt, John

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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